Word: martin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bill has been too drastically cut in many instances," Rep. Martin of Massachusetts, the House GOP leader, told newsmen...
...MARTIN RIES New York City...
...refused for weeks to get excited about the budget uproar. Then one day last week, while he was in the midst of writing a perfunctory we're-doing-the-best-we-can speech, he got an urgent call from House Minority Leader Joe Martin. That evening Joe Martin was ushered upstairs to the President's study and bluntly told Ike that the House Appropriations Committee was about to make heavy Defense bill slashes. Really shocked at the prospect of a crippling cut-perhaps as much as $2.5 billion-Ike determined to toughen his speech...
...front of the Lincoln Memorial because we are getting more from a dead Republican than we are from live Democrats and live Republicans!" In direct contrast, staking his hopes on the future rather than anchoring his peeves on the past, was Montgomery, Ala.'s soft-spoken Pastor Martin Luther King (TIME, Feb. 18). Gist of the Rev. King's eloquent plea to the White House and Congress: "Give us the ballot and we will no longer have to worry the Federal Government about our basic rights . . . We will quietly and nonviolently, without rancor or bitterness, implement the Supreme...
...bestseller, Room at the Top, by John Braine, published in England just ten weeks ago, the third face of Lucky Jim emerges: that of the intellectual spiv ruthlessly making his luck. Joe Lampton is only a town clerk, but he knows what he wants-an Aston-Martin sports car, a villa in Cannes, and a girl who will look just right in either. When the daughter of the local industrial tycoon pops the question, "Joe, do you really love me?" Joe coos back sweet nothings in the shape of five zeros: "A hundred thousand pounds' worth." Room...