Word: martines
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...HUGH G. MARTIN JR. Lieutenant Colonel, Infantry Ft. Jackson...
White House than in the House of Representatives. When Richards finished, Ike turned to House G.O.P. Leader Joe Martin and Speaker Rayburn. Asked Ike: "What can we do?" Replied Martin, seconded by Mister Sam: "Speak out loud and clear at your press conference...
Rare Drama. The House leaders struggled desperately against the onslaught. Majority Leader John McCormack, Sam Rayburn and Joe Martin (who read a 380-word letter from the President pleading for the foreign-aid program) all spoke earnestly-and futilely. Then Dick Richards, serving the last of his 23 years in the House (he is retiring this year), arose to defend his committee's cuts. It was a moment of rare House drama: the policy of an able, hard-working committee chairman had been repudiated by his leaders, who were also his dear friends. Sam Rayburn and Joe Martin, said...
...weary press secretary's tension melted with the good news, but the grind went on. Late that afternoon, in a radio interview with ABC Correspondent Martin Agronsky, Hagerty parried persistent questions on whether he thought Ike would still run for reelection. Finally, in a mixture of relief and fatigue, he gave way. "Do you expect to be around here another four years?" tried Agronsky. Chuckled Hagerty: "I think so." Soon afterward, just 36 hours after the call from the White House, Jim Hagerty finished a job well done and went home...
...Edward Leahy, 69, Washington lawyer and civic leader, longtime (since 1932) president of Washington's Columbus University Law School, sometime (1925, 1947) special assistant to U.S. attorney generals; of a heart attack; in Washington. Leahy's clients included: Bigtime Mobsters Al Capone and Dutch Schultz, Federal Judge Martin T. Manton...