Word: sam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Administration had a good reason to expect Democratic backing on the proposals discussed, and House Speaker-to-be Sam Rayburn emerged from the White House assuring newsmen that "no blood was spilled...
Nobody explained this sound political logic to the new Democratic national chairman, Paul Butler. At a press conference, after the New Orleans meeting, Butler endorsed a personal attack on Ike attributed by a local newspaper to House Democratic Leader Sam Rayburn. Butler declared that Ike had demonstrated "his incapacity to lead the American people . . . His military background does not qualify Eisenhower as a political leader." If Butler had asked any of the reporters, he would have learned that Rayburn had vehemently denied any attack...
Somewhere a little old lady named Virginia sits reading her newspaper in a rocking chair. Sometimes the headlines in the papers frighten here, and this is one of those times. DOCTOR SAM TELLS OF TUSSLE; REDS HOLD INNOCENT SOLDIERS; HEMINGWAY RECOVERS FROM CRASH WOUNDS, they say. Virginia lowers her spectacles and quivers. She had always thought there was a Santa Claus, ever since that nice editor answered here letter, but maybe...
...waist up. That's all I recall. I touched him on the shoulders. He moved." Upstairs, he said, he found Marilyn dead on the bed. "She was mercilessly and terribly beaten about the head. She was unrecognizable, except in profile." When taken away to the family hospital. Sam Sheppard "was mumbling incoherently to himself." Once he said: "My God-Marilyn's dead!" Later, he blamed the murder on a burly, bush-haired intruder with whom he had struggled futilely...
Assistant County Prosecutor John J. Mahon, who has sent more people to the electric chair than any other prosecutor in Ohio, has tried to make his case with technical detail: drops of blood, grains of sand, eight strands of hair and other minutiae which demonstrated that Sam Sheppard could have committed the murder. The defense will call more than a score of witnesses in an effort to indicate that...