Word: sam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fraud. Said McCormack: "Sign it." Kennedy refused-the only Democrat in the Massachusetts delegation to do so. McCormack neither forgave nor forgot, especially after Kennedy beat him for control of the state Democratic Committee in a preconvention 1956 fight. At the national convention, it was McCormack who signaled to Sam Rayburn to recognize the Missouri delegation-which cast the decisive votes against Kennedy...
Others followed rival leaders, such as Sam Francis or Robert Motherwell, or sought out stylistic byways they could almost call their own. The byways were apt to be dignified with mysterious road signs: Boon, Creation, Fluxus, Rite, House of Venus I. James Ernst coyly offered a Painting with a Secret Title, which resembled a tangle of TV antennas. Such literary hints and gestures were a change from the blunt titles of abstractions in the last few Whitney annuals, which gave merely a number or a date. Possibly more abstract expressionists were beginning to think in terms of meanings, whether...
...Spoils. State Senator Sam Englehardt Jr., author of the original gerrymander, has already attempted to counter the boycott by asking for an investigation of Tuskegee's huge Veterans Administration Hospital, where nearly 2,000 (mostly Negroes) work. And up for referendum just eight days before Christmas is State Constitutional Amendment No. 18, a plan to consider abolishing Macon County (now 84% Negro) by dividing its land among five neighboring counties. A poll by the Montgomery Advertiser indicated that Macon County is in favor of the abolition amendment. If the rest of the state agrees, Tuskegee will lose its position...
...Gerety and Chris Hauge will start in the backfield against Yale Saturday, Coach John Yovicsin announced yesterday. Walt Stahura and Sam Halaby may see some action, but still have not yet recovered fully from injuries received in the Brown game...
...probable starting lineup today will include Charlie Devens and Frank Bachinsky at the ends, Harry Fitzgibbons and Bob Hallowell at the tackles, Doug Brown and Sam Snodgrass at the guards, and Dalton Avery at center. Tony Marlow, Tom Lawson, Chub Newell, and Rick Crocker will comprise the backfield...