Word: coleman
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...games ahead of the faltering Giants, were racing along at a .728 clip (mainly by winning 38 out of 39 games from the second-division Pirates, Reds and Braves). In the American League, the New York Yankees, despite the loss of Joe DiMaggio and Second Baseman Jerry Coleman (recalled by the Marines), had stretched their lead to 4½ games over the Boston Red Sox. The league leaders at week...
Assembly Line. In Madison Heights, Va., 13-month-old Martha Lula Coleman started to swallow a piece of nylon sewing thread, choked, brought up the string and a 10?-store whistle she had swallowed three months before...
...seven from Louisiana, they would have to appeal from the ruling of the chairman. Any assembly is reluctant to overrule "the chair." Ikemen would have had a much harder time arguing against the chair than for what they deemed their rights. Said Taft's able Floor Manager Tom Coleman: "We would have won that vote...
...Taftmen's signals jammed. When Coleman got back to the floor, Ohio's Senator John Bricker had moved to adopt the 1948 rules, and the Eisenhower forces had offered a substitute motion-the now-celebrated Langlie amendment (providing that delegations contested by more than 33⅓% of the national committee might not vote on other contests). Who told Bricker to make his motion? Chairman Gabrielson, who at that point was apparently thinking about routine, not about Taft tactics. Things were happening so fast that Coleman had to pick the nearest Taftman available to raise the point of order...
...that they would not be able to persuade the convention to maintain the ruling laid down by Elihu Root in 1912: that contested delegations seated by the national committee may participate in a full convention vote on any contest save their own. In last-moment desperation, Taft Leaders Tom Coleman and Dave Ingalls offered to give up their fight for the Root ruling if Ikemen would agree not to challenge the qualifications of seven of the 13 contested delegates from Louisiana. By this time, the argument had moved into full view of the TV cameras. Pounding his fist, Eisenhower Campaign...