Sublime

Operating with a modest initial budget of $15,000, Senator Truman ingeniously augmented its resources by appealing directly to the American public via CBS Radio, encouraging citizens to report any defense-related waste they observed in their communities. These citizen letters became a routine and valuable starting point for the committee's investig... See more

J. S. Morgan’s core business was short-term trade finance, “discounting bills,” as it was called. Its primary customers were American cotton or iron merchants. They typically sold their goods on credit, taking back a piece of paper, or “bill of exchange,” which could be cashed at a specific bank such as Barings at some set future date. If a merchan

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In 1946, President Truman appointed, by executive order, a blue-ribbon committee to study the civil rights problem in all its aspects, and the committee’s report, “To Secure These Rights,” called not only for a permanent FEPC, abolition of the poll tax, and federal laws against lynchings but also for the establishment of a permanent Commission on C

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