Word: mccormack
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Members of the Massachusetts gang are strategically placed among the most important committees in the House-Appropriations, Ways and Means, and Rules. Three of the past five Speakers of the House have come from Massachusetts-Joe Martin (1947-49, 1953-55), John McCormack (1962-71) and O'Neill (since 1977)-and all have been true to their heritage. "It's kind of like crop rotation," said Massachusetts Democratic Congressman James Shannon. "When Martin and McCormack were here, they made sure that Massachusetts members got on good committees. Now Tip is doing the same thing with...
...goods flew off shelves and windows shattered. In a motel swimming pool, water splashed 30 feet into the air. Walls fell, chimneys crumbled and roofs collapsed. "I was slammed against one wall and then the other," said Eva Rhodes, 75, who had just started to make dinner. Added Cleona McCormack: "The way the floor was rolling, I thought the earth was going to open up and swallow...
...night to make free sandwiches. But many lifelong dreams were shattered. Stationer Bunker's wife Florence announced, "We are going to give up. We don't need a low-interest Government loan." Surveying the remains of a turn-of-the-century mansion he had carefully restored, Jack McCormack, 52, sighed: "I got $90,000 sitting on the ground." But Mayor Keith Scrivner refused to count Coalinga out. Said he: "We will rebuild...
Helms paid a price, even for his imagined glory. A third nomination, that of Richard McCormack as Assistant Secretary of State for Economic and Business Affairs, was also withdrawn from Senate consideration last week. McCormack was a Helms protégé. He was passed over when Democratic Liberals Edward Kennedy and Joseph Biden, angry over what Helms had done to Grey, threatened their own filibuster retaliation-precisely as presidential aides had foreseen...
...Katey McCormack, Dartmouth...