Word: sam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...snorted Dan Reed. "We'll vote it up or down." Sam Rayburn had had a score of freshmen Democrats in for break fast and had passed the word: "If you want to get along, go along." More than 20 members addressed the House. Party lines were wiped out. Ten nessee's Democratic Representative Ross Bass lashed the Republicans for not supporting the bill. As he spoke, Democratic Representative James C. Davis (who has a textile mill in his Stone Mountain, Ga. district) was conferring with Dan Reed about beating it, while Republican Joe Martin had crossed the aisle...
Battle Tested. In Salt Lake City, Grocer Sam Shortino hired a relief clerk so that he could attend a meeting of the Butchers' and Grocers' Association, where he listened attentively as police warned of the danger of keeping loaded guns in stores, returned to find that his substitute had routed two robbers by firing at them with the pistol Shortino always kept in his store...
Earlier, the freshmen, leading the Waltham Boy's Club 37 to 31 going into the last event, had to win it or lose the meet by a point. Cy Hamlin, Sam Bailey, Grif Winthrop and Captain Ron Mischner teamed in that order for a 200-yard free style relay that set a Waltham pool mark of 1:41.0 and saved the Yardling victory...
...House of Representatives received the message with reservations. Speaker Sam Rayburn grumbled to newsmen that Ike was asking for authority that he already possessed. Majority Leader John McCormack bitterly denounced the Administration's "vacillating policy." Then the House leadership rose to the occasion. Said Speaker Rayburn: The President wants "to do it this way, so I think it ought to be done this way rather promptly." Five hours after Ike's message was received by the House, its Foreign Affairs Committee approved the resolution...
...share in dividends. In 1950 Leahy owned 4,700 Capital Transit shares. He declined to say whether he still owns them, but if he does, he has made upwards of $150,000 in dividends and an estimated $100,000 more in paper profits. Later he became a partner with Sam and Cecil Wolfson (Louis' brothers) in an insurance brokerage firm...