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From Martin Van Buren to Pat McCarran, for better or worse, the chairmanship of the U.S. Senate's Judiciary Committee has been a wellspring of power. The committee handles up to half the legislation submitted to the Senate, passes on all nominations to the federal courts (including the Supreme Court) and on all Justice Department positions requiring Senate confirmation. It has jurisdiction over all legislation on immigration and citizenship. It studies all amendments proposed to the U.S. Constitution. It handles civil rights matters. Last week, after the death of Chairman Harley Kilgore, the chairmanship of the Judiciary Committee went...
Brother Matthew, Brother Bartholomew and Brother Stanislaus take their vows this week at the Servite Monastery on Van Buren Street in Chicago. Brother Stanislaus came from the Polish army and five years in a German prison camp. Brother Bartholomew came from the retail clothing trade in Chicago, where he was known to fellow salesmen as "Two-Pants Murphy." And Brother Matthew came from the honky-tonk world of red-hot, blue-air, 4-in-the-morning jazz; his name was Boyce Brown...
...precedents are against Nixon's chances to move into the White House in 1957. Only three men have moved up directly from the vice-presidency to the White House by election: John Adams, Thomas Jefferson and Martin Van Buren The last of those moves was made 120 years before Nixon would be trying to make his But such precedents are not the kind to dismay Richard Nixon. He has risen fast and far in politics, to his present high role as acting captain of the Eisenhower team. He aims eventually to be captain of the team...
Family & Early Life. During the Civil War, his Confederate grandfather died in a Union prison camp, and Union troops devastated the family plantation in Lafayette County, Miss. Quarles's father, a dentist, moved to Van Buren, Ark. As a boy, Quarles roamed the Ozarks, fished in mountain streams, applied an old country remedy when a playmate was bitten by a snake (the remedy: a raw-chicken poultice). He sang in his high-school glee club with bazooka-playing Arkansas Traveler Bob Burns, graduated at 15, then taught school for $50 a month. In 1912-16 he worked...
...line James has no problems with weight, since his forwards average over 200 pounds from end to end. Besides veteran Oniskey at right guard is 195-pound John Anderluh. He fills the hole left in pre-season practice by the injury or James van Buren, a senior who broke a rib in a scrimmage with Penn State...