Word: adame
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...finally the facts began to run together in a tantalizing, ominous way. This was about the time the Boss put Jack to digging up dirt on Judge Irwin, who lived at Burden's Landing, in a beautiful house near the beautiful houses where Jack and his friends Adam and Anne Stanton had grown up. The Judge, tall and straight and yellow-eyed, had taught Jack how to shoot ducks when he was a boy and had read history...
...explode the charge until Stark's son, Tom, got a girl into trouble and political enemies started to use this against Willie. When the charge did go off, it uncovered some strange relationships (and some unnecessary melodrama). Jack's mother and his friends, Adam and Anne Stanton, and a lot of others are drawn into the vortex of events that is the swift and punishing, tragic and surprising last half of this book. It is climaxed by the inevitable assassination of Willie Stark in a corridor of the Capitol...
Born. To the Rev. Adam Clayton Powell Jr, 37, New York Congressman and Harlem preacher; and Hazel Scott, 26, boogie-woogie artist: their first child, a son; in Manhattan. Name: Adam Clayton Powell III. Weight...
...over into peacetime living is illustrated by the present conflict over price controls. The majority of the people know that the continuance of controls would be best for the economy as a whole, yet each group finds excuses for allowing itself to be exempt from controls. The philosophy of Adam Smith's invisible hand which turned self-interest into the good of all has carried over into a dynamic society where it can no longer function, but the people refuse to forsake...
...seem to hamper his long, powerful stroke. Uncle Emile was in the race, too, more for family support than anything else. They had to beat their traditional rivals, the Billiot family -and there were three Billiots in the race, headed by grim, 65-year-old Grandpa Etienne and Son Adam, a five-time champion. Along the soggy bayou shores, excited Cajuns cheered the Creppels or the Billiots, depending on whose kin they were...