Word: martins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Democratic Senators had kept temperatures up with long-winded assaults on the presidential succession bill, which would place the Speaker of the House next in the line after the Vice President. Though the measure had the approval of Harry Truman, Senate Democrats were unwilling to see Republican Speaker Joe Martin put ahead of Cabinet members into a position just once removed from the White House...
...Proposal. In a final maneuver to harass Republicans, Georgia's Russell slyly proposed that the president pro tempore of the Senate, Arthur Vandenberg, be placed in front of Speaker Martin...
...over the U.S., government and industrial laboratories are working on rockets, the most promising weapons for World War III. Most of the work is secret, but last week the Glenn L. Martin Co. of Baltimore told a few facts about a long-range rocket it is developing for the Navy. The new Martin missile will be called the Neptune: the name symbolizes the Navy's contention that rockets are seagoing weapons...
When nominations began, Murray learned that both the Eubanks faction and the leftist "independent-progressive" wings were stronger than he. For Murray's office, the Eubanks crowd put up 38-year-old Harry Martin, amusement editor of the Memphis Commercial Appeal. Leftists entered 41-year-old Willard Shelton, onetime editor of the Christian Evangelist, now a Washington correspondent for Manhattan...
More Support. Kansas' Clyde Martin Reed, sponsor of the bill, deprecated such notions. The bill's opponents had proceeded, "either wilfully or ignorantly, upon an erroneous basis. . . . Every experienced traffic man knows that a majority of freight rate changes, whether made by a bureau or in some other method or manner, are decreases. The shippers . . . have universally come 'to the support of this bill...