Word: martin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...MARTIN S. LITWIN
Through the fight, long after G.O.P. Senate Leader William Knowland had thrown in the towel and when even House Republican Leader Joe Martin was considering retreat, Vice President Nixon punched hard for a meaningful bill. The verdict on his efforts was best rendered by his opponents. Just when the Senate was about to pass his watered-down bill, Democrat Johnson arose to attack Nixon for leading "a concerted propaganda campaign" against it. And last week, after the final vote on the civil rights bill had been taken, Georgia's Senator Richard Russell, the most influential Southerner of them...
Before the civil rights bill passed through the last stretch of the Senate foundry last week, the South's most famous Negro leader was drawing up plans for a Southwide campaign to make prompt use of the new weapon. Alabama's the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., hero of the history-making Montgomery boycott against Jim Crow buses, announced that his Southern Christian Leadership Conference (membership: 100-odd Negro leaders, mostly clergymen, in eleven states) is going to undertake a long-range drive to get Negro names on Dixie registration rolls...
JANIS DARLENE MARTIN, 17, a onetime Virginia country girl to whom Victor hopes to transfer some of the Elvis Presley appeal. A veteran of such folksy outfits as the Dixie Playboys and the Shenandoah Valley Boys, Darlene was signed on the basis of a demonstration record, loaded aboard the Victor March of Dimes train for a tour of the country. Her high, nasal voice and tub-thumping beat went over big at whistle stops and local auditoriums. Two of her singles-My Boy Elvis and Little Bit-got on the charts, and with her latest disk, Love Me to Pieces...
...highest levels in more than 25 years, the Federal Reserve, whose tight-money policy was designed to offset the very real danger of runaway inflation and its disastrous consequences, is now starting to look around the next bend. Testifying before the Senate Finance Committee last week, Chairman William McChesney Martin Jr., who still emphasizes the perils of inflation, permitted himself a guarded hint that he thinks his policy may have succeeded. Said Martin: "I think savings are increasing rapidly. I am inclined to think we are reaching a leveling-out process, and interest rates may stabilize and even decline...