Word: adamses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The presidential election has gone to the House only twice, in 1801 and 1825. In the latter case, John Quincy Adams won, although he had trailed Andrew Jackson in both popular and electoral votes.* There are other dangers as well. If the House and Senate are controlled by different parties...
Adams nonetheless patented his battery in 1943. Then ten years later, the Army got a patent of its own-without a word to Adams-and ordered more than a million batteries built to its own design. Sure that he had been bilked, Bert went to court. Six other men, who...
Painful Riders. Losers of damage suits are notoriously slow payers, and all too often the winner finds himself back in court fighting to collect what the law has said is rightfully his. But Adams' debtor, after all, was the U.S. Government. His money seemed practically in his pocket.
Far from it. Before the U.S. could settle, Congress had to appropriate the funds. A rider to that effect was at tached to an appropriations bill. Then another rider was attached, allocating funds for the Office of Economic Opportunity; that sank the whole bill. In due course, Adams' hopes...
Every Effort. A Congress notably wary of any kind of spending seemed utterly uninterested in the welfare of the retired inventor. Now 69, he has been living in Yuma, Ariz., primarily on social security payments. Then last month, in a surprising paroxysm of activity, Congress passed a bill appropriating his...