Word: martines
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unity and strength, he would battle for men and policies far more liberal than himself. His party-first drive, tirelessly applied after he became chairman of the Congressional Campaign Committee in 1943, paid off by 1947 in the party's first House majority for 16 years. As Joe Martin moved up to Speaker, Halleck overrode Taft regulars to become majority leader, ramrodded through bills such as the Taft-Hartley Act and tax-cutting measures. Promised -he says-the vice presidential nomination in 1948. Halleck took Indiana votes to Tom Dewey only to see Dewey nod to California...
...asked the President. "I'm sorry that two good friends got in a fight." Ike suggested that Martin keep on coming to the weekly White House legislative conferences. "No, that I can't do," replied Martin. Said the President: "But I'm inviting you. Why can't you?" Replied Martin: "I'll come down and tell you-some...
...hung up, dropped his head between his arms on his desk, and, as two visitors turned silently away, Old Joe Martin wept...
...Montgomery, where famed Negro Minister Martin Luther King Jr. (TIME, Feb. 18, 1957) had announced that Negroes would soon present the board of education with a school integration plan, the city commission 1) accused "certain Negroes" of "attempting to disturb the operation of the public schools," 2) pledged "full assistance" to the board of education in resisting school integration, and 3) called for a grand jury investigation of King's integration movement...
...financial dipsy-doodling, none is more involved than a deal set up by a pair of film writers named Martin L. Rackin and John Lee Mahin. Ten months ago the team found a loose option on Harold Sinclair's Civil War novel, The Horse Soldiers, snapped it up for a token $1 (eventually they paid $30,000 for the book). Looking around for a director, Entrepreneur Rackin went to the best. "For the hell of it, I called John Ford." Before long, Director Ford, a Civil War buff, agreed to do the picture for a $200,000 flat...