Word: joe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...newly installed as House G.O.P. leader. In the chair at Ike's right, reserved in the past for Cabinet officers or other Administration aides reporting to the legislators, sat new Senate Republican Leader Everett Dirksen. New G.O.P. Senate Whip Tom Kuchel took the place where deposed House Leader Joe Martin had always sat. And before the conference had progressed very far, it was clear too that the new team had brought new attitudes...
...party unity and strength, he would battle for men and policies far more liberal than himself. His party-first drive, tirelessly applied after he became chairman of the Congressional Campaign Committee in 1943, paid off by 1947 in the party's first House majority for 16 years. As Joe Martin moved up to Speaker, Halleck overrode Taft regulars to become majority leader, ramrodded through bills such as the Taft-Hartley Act and tax-cutting measures. Promised -he says-the vice presidential nomination in 1948. Halleck took Indiana votes to Tom Dewey only to see Dewey nod to California...
...Joe?" asked the President. "I'm sorry that two good friends got in a fight." Ike suggested that Martin keep on coming to the weekly White House legislative conferences. "No, that I can't do," replied Martin. Said the President: "But I'm inviting you. Why can't you?" Replied Martin: "I'll come down and tell you-some...
...hung up, dropped his head between his arms on his desk, and, as two visitors turned silently away, Old Joe Martin wept...
...Died. Joe Bologna, 79, little (5 ft. 1 in.) king of the Wall Street bootblacks; of a heart attack; in Brooklyn. In 1896, 18-year-old Giuseppe Bologna left Castel-grande in Italy's southern Apennines, began shining shoes in Manhattan, where bootblacks worked a 15-hr. day and the top ones earned $4 a week. By 1902 Joe had returned to Italy, married, and was back in New York living with his wife and daughter in a $7-a-month apartment on a family food budget of 25? a day. Joe knelt at the feet of bank presidents...