Word: sam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...House Speaker Sam Rayburn from N.A.A.C.P. Executive Secretary Roy Wilkins came a letter urging against party punishment for Adam Clayton Powell. Reason: it might give the impression "that the Democratic Party is taking such action because of Mr. Powell's race, and also because of his efforts to secure passage of civil-rights legislation...
...troubled ground that in an earlier day produced wispy, goateed Communist Dictator Ho Chi Minh. According to reports reaching South Viet Nam, peasants armed with swords and farm tools surprised Communist guards and took their weapons. Some Viet Minh local units joined the rebels, too. General Hoang Sam's crack 304th Division drove the insurgents into the hills, where they are now setting up the kind of guerrilla resistance that Comrade Ho pioneered...
Yale, on the other hand, has been strengthened by the return of center half Bob Pelletreau after a year in Europe. The forward line will also feature Mike Cooke at inside right and Lars Kulleseid at inside left. Sam Allen at left fullback, and junior Scott Murphy in the goal are defensive standouts...
...return of such congressional figures as Johnson and his fellow Texan, House Speaker Sam Rayburn, to their roles as the nation's most powerful Democrats, does not mean the party can speak with a single, clear voice. Liberals in Congress, with an eye toward 1958 elections, are already insisting that the party should offer its own ambitious legislative program, have been sharply critical of Johnson's announced business-as-usual, middle-of-the-road strategy for the next session of Congress (see below). Last week the Fair Dealing New Republic gloomily warned that "Eisenhower's brand...
Both star halfbacks Chet Boulris and Sam Halaby were sidelined because of injuries and probably will not see action before the Yale game...