Word: sam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Speaking without notes, Lewis roared for three hours. Here was the same spavined warrior who had learned tactics at the knee of Sam Gompers, who had campaigned fervently for, then violently against Franklin Roosevelt, had regularly undermined the economy with his coal strikes (statisticians blame his miners for 25% of all workdays lost by strikes in the 22 years before 1949). Here was the rebel who had founded the C.I.O., left it, rejoined the A.F.L., left it ("TheA.F.L. has no head; its neck just growed and haired over"). There were flashes of the old defiant Lewis who had traded...
Back on Capitol Hill, Speaker Sam Rayburn and Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson saw opportunity: REA was one of those rare issues where Democrats of the South would likely stick together with other Democrats around the compass. They decided they could muster the necessary two-thirds vote to override the veto and doubly defeat the President. Republican Leader Everett Dirksen and Ike's other lieutenants in the Senate were in glum agreement; with the help of six farm-bloc minded Republicans (Kentucky's John Sherman Cooper. South Dakota's Francis Case and Karl Mundt, North Dakota...
...Gallwey, at number three, picked up another straight set win, 6-3, 7-5, over Sam Hinkle. Down 1-5 in the second set, Gallwey reeled off six straight games...
...dissatisfaction with Big Labor's outdated, class-against-class philosophy. What wide-ranging Pollster Samuel Lubell reported after talking to U.S. steelworkers (see Labor) indicates that many union members have come to see what some of their leaders have not yet acknowledged: the way for labor to get Sam Gompers' "more" is to share, fairly and responsibly, in the economy's overall growth...
...organizes high-sounding discussions on his Open End show. Says his wife: "It's his Alexander the Great complex." Although, at 38, Susskind is undoubtedly TV's most successful dramatic producer, the complex keeps him going. "I want to have my own marquee value, like Sam Goldwyn and Cecil B. DeMille," he says. "Then I wouldn't always have to bother about getting big stars for every show. If people accepted it as a Susskind production, that would be ideal...