Word: sam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...protect its claim, the Government put Lias into receivership in 1952, then decided Big Bill probably could run the federalized race track more efficiently than anyone else. Lias, who paid himself $65,000 a year as general manager, asked a modest $55,000 to do the job for Uncle Sam. Federal Judge Harry E. Watkins, supervising the receivership, scaled the request to $35,000. Of that, $15,000 is deducted for current taxes, $10,000 is applied to Big Bill's seven-figure debt to the U.S., and the remaining $10,000 is for Lias...
When Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Baines Johnson and House Speaker Sam Rayburn returned to Washington from their triumph over Governor Allan Shivers in the Texas Democratic conventions...
...TIME. May 14), they were greeted at National Airport by a cheering, stomping crowd with band and banners. LOVE THAT LYNDON said one placard. Said another: THE U.S.A. NEEDS L.B.J. Old Sam Rayburn caused some quick sidelong glances when he said that "under our great and brilliant young leader we're going to march to higher victories...
...Exactly one year to the day after the Chicago Cubs' "Toothpick Sam" Jones pitched the last no-hit game in big-league baseball, the Brooklyn Dodgers' Carl Erskine turned in the second no-hit game of his career and beat the Giants...
Gravem found the pretty strokes of Sam Schoonmaker a bit too tough as he lost, 6-2, 4-6, 6-0 to the Yale number three man. Heckscher tired badly in the third set of his match with Newel Augur...