Word: andrews
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...House of Representatives. Sumner, a master orator who succeeded Daniel Webster in the U.S. Senate, carried the Negro's banner there. They were the spiritual leaders of the "Radical Republicans," whose pro-Negro stand was far beyond that of Abraham Lincoln. In 1866, when President Andrew Johnson vetoed a bill to expand the Freedmen's Bureau (an agency to aid and educate former slaves), Stevens rose in the House and called the North Carolina-born President "an alien enemy, a citizen of a foreign state." In the Senate, Sumner cried that Johnson was "an insolent, drunken brute...
Frank Lausche, Ohio's first Roman Catholic governor, whose parents emigrated from Slovenia to Cleveland, has long had his eye on the White House. If he gets there, it will be surprising: no man of Eastern European stock and no Catholic has been President; Andrew Jackson was the only President whose parents were both born abroad (in Ireland...
...suit for separation against 63-year-old former Munitions Maker Murray Garsson, now living quietly in New York City since his release from prison over two years ago. Garsson served 19 months of an 8-to-24-month sentence. With his brother Henry and Kentucky's former Representative Andrew May, he had been convicted of conspiracy and bribery involving Government contracts...
...Kampala and in all Buganda is No. 7. There, in his white palace, ringed with pacing sentries and a ten-foot-high stockade of elephant grass, the Kabaka (King) of Buganda got an urgent message last week. It was an invitation from Uganda's British governor, Sir Andrew Benjamin Cohen, to His Highness Kabaka Edward William Frederick David Walugembe Mutebi Luwangula Mutesa II. It said: Come and talk...
Clarence L. Hogan was appointed associate professor of Applied Physics; Lloyd M. Trefethen, professor of Mechanical Engineering; and Andrew R. Lang, instructor in Metallurgy...