Word: martins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Republican Congressmen were pleased with the week's work. With obvious enthusiasm, the House passed and sent to Harry Truman the presidential succession measure which put the Speaker of the House next in line for the nation's highest office. Speaker Joe Martin, now just one heartbeat from the White House, said that he hoped President Truman would continue to enjoy "the best of health...
...scribe who said of Till the End of Time, "It was the best-selling jazz record of 1945" [TIME, June 23]-was he kidding the public? Anyone who had the nerve to pen such a banality should be forced to listen to Guy Lombardo, Sammy Kaye and Freddie Martin till the end of time...
...Harry Truman had vetoed three weeks ago. Republicans had wrathfully introduced it again. They took another veto for granted. But they thought that by changing the effective date from July 1, 1947 to January 1948, they might muster enough strength to override the President. In the House, Speaker Joe Martin expected to ram the bill through early this week with better than a two-thirds majority, rush it along to the Senate...
...Guild's Right-Left split remained unhealed after Sioux City, but it looked as if Harry Martin would be top dog in the race to be president. And there was no doubt now who was the Guild's strong man. He was burly, closemouthed, onetime Make-Up Editor (Oakland. Calif. Post-Enquirer) Sam Eubanks...
...inept and corrupt public-school administration. For months, a reform school board had been looking for a man to clean up the disorder left by Mayor Ed Kelly's stooge, Superintendent William Johnson. The reform board, appointed with the approval of Chicago's new businessman mayor, Martin H. Kennelly, had found Chicago's teaching staff unhappy victims of political conniving and its school system on the blacklist of the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools. Last week, the board unanimously confirmed 45-year-old Herold C. Hunt as its new superintendent. Three days later...