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Word: adamsers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sir: I protest the use of the term Wasp as the equivalent of "Americans of the old stock." There is a comparatively small but very proud and loyal group of people in the U.S. whose ancestors were both Catholics and Americans long before the influx of ethnic groups. They include...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 31, 1969 | 1/31/1969 | See Source »

Parks has long been a friend of William L. Adams, sometimes known as Little Willie, whom the Senate Crime Investigating Committee in 1951 named as Baltimore's top operator of the numbers games. Little Willie is a director of the sausage company, and until last week he and Parks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Executives: Up and Out | 1/31/1969 | See Source »

W L Lowell 3 0 Kirkland 2 1 Adams 2 1 Quincy 2 2 Dunster 1 1 Eliot 1 2 Winthrop 0 1 Dudley 0 3 Leverett 0 0

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: House Athletics | 1/29/1969 | See Source »

The outgoing President chose to deliver his final State of the Union message in person; the last President to do so was John Adams in 1800. Lyndon Johnson had a special reason for his decision, which he confessed was "just pure sentimental." He is a child of the Congress, and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE LAST MESSAGE-AND ADIEU | 1/24/1969 | See Source »

* Bailey is the sixth elector in U.S. history to defy his party. The others: Pennsylvanian Samuel Miles, chosen as a Federalist, voted for Thomas Jefferson rather than John Adams in 1796; former Senator William Plumer of New Hampshire voted for John Quincy Adams rather than James Monroe, 1820; Preston Parks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Electoral College: Reminder for Reform | 1/17/1969 | See Source »

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