Word: martines
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Texas' Sam Rayburn will relieve Massachusetts' Joe Martin of the Speakership, but not of his office suite. Mr. Sam, weary of swapping offices, told Joe to stay on in the Speaker's rooms. After 32 years in the Senate, Georgia's patriarchal Walter George, senior Democrat since the 1952 defeat of Tennessee's fiery-eyed Kenneth McKellar, will win the prestige of Mc-Kellar's old title, Senate President pro tempore...
...number eight spot, where Grayson Murphy, who may not be completely recovered from the measles, this is the lineup that will face the Green; 1, Heckscher; 2, Paschal; 3, Wister (C); 4, Bob Brown; 5, Cal Place; 6, Bancroft Wheeler 7, Pete Milton; 8, Murphy or Roger Cortes; 9, Martin Heckscher...
Chicago seems headed for a weird and ferocious three-way fight for mayor. The contenders: two-term Mayor Martin Kennelly, who has been dumped by the city's Democratic machine; County Clerk Richard J. Daley, who appointed the committee that picked him and dumped Kennelly (and then commented, "I never dreamed it could happen to me"); and Robert E. Merriam, who won election in 1947 to the city council as a Democrat, but turned Republican to run for mayor...
...Democratic Party through dark days. In 1947, after 14 years of rule, the Nash-Kelly machine's odorous record seemed to be catching up with it. The Democrats, panicky at the possibility of an election defeat, retired aging Ed Kelly as mayor and ran respectable Martin Kennelly as a "reform" candidate. Elected, Kennelly did a fairly good job, but did not satisfy either the reformers or the machine politicians. Last fall he refused to work for or endorse his party's ticket, and the party got ready to throw Kennelly overboard...
Surinam and the six Antilles islands (Curaçao, Aruba, Bonaire, St. Eustatius, Saba and half of St. Martin) have been Dutch colonies since the 17th century. Dutchmen gained possession of the islands by driving out the Spaniards, who didn't even put up a fight. When the Dutch also tried to push the British out of the part of Guiana now called Surinam, the British countered by seizing New Amsterdam (Manhattan). Later, in the 1667 Peace of Breda, the Dutch traded off New Amsterdam (bought from the Indians for $24) for 55,000 square miles in Guiana...