Word: martines
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Montgomery bombings came just as 60 Negro leaders from nine Southern states, headed by Montgomery's Martin Luther King, met in Atlanta for a two-day conference on integration strategy. When the closed-door sessions broke up, the leaders called on President Eisenhower to come South "immediately" and make "a major speech in a major Southern city urging all Southerners to abide by the Supreme Court's decision." They also urged Vice President Nixon to make a tour of the South "similar to the one made in behalf of the Hungarian refugees," and asked Attorney General Herbert Brownell...
...Betsey Gushing Whitney, heard a special tape recording of the tributes paid her husband at the dinner. Among the notable banquet guests: CBS Board Chairman William S. Paley and high-styled Barbara Gushing Paley, Long Island Newsday Publisher Alicia Patterson, Broadway Producer Richard Halliday and his musicomedienne wife Mary Martin, retiring G.O.P. National Committee Chairman Leonard W. Hall (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), New York's freshman Republican Senator Jacob K. Javits, New York Herald Tribune President-Editor Ogden R. Reid, TV Comic Sid Caesar...
...dictatorial powers to allocate all credit, set all interest rates, and, in effect, peg the debt level for every businessman and private citizen in the U.S. Another suggestion is that the FRB's responsibility for backing the Employment Act be written into law. While FRB Chairman William McChesney Martin assumed' that he must help maintain full employment, no such basic mission is contained in the original charter. ∙ But while everyone wants a study, the question of who will make it has already touched off a hot political argument. Representative Patman and Illinois Senator Paul Douglas, both jealous...
...Hollywood or Bust (Hal Wallis; Paramount) might be called a redundant pun. Like most Dean Martin-Jerry Lewis productions, the movie is a package job. It tidily wraps up some songs (by Dean), a few gags (by Jerry), a couple of dozen long-stemmed American beauties (in shorts), a lot of scenery (in VistaVision), and Anita Ekberg (in decolletage). The opportunity to display all these items begins when Jerry, an idiotic movie fan, sets out for Hollywood with Dean to meet Anita, the movie queen of his dreams. Stopping off in Las Vegas, Jerry gets his lucky feeling, parlays...
...badly at the start, passed the other two men during the third lap and haded off to second man Bob Hoyt 10 yards ahead of Providence. Hoyt opened this lead up until he had nearly a half lap on Providence, Art Cahn held this lead, and anchorman Ed Martin increased it to nearly three-quarters of a lap at the wire...