Word: sam
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sam's Lawyer. It is almost ironical that Ervin's reputation as a humorist has obscured his standing as one of Capitol Hill's most learned students...
...mind of man." He has four rooms full of books about the Constitution in his home office back in Morganton, N.C. Before going to the Senate, he served as a superior court judge and as an associate justice on the state Supreme Court. The late House Speaker Sam Rayburn referred to Ervin as "my lawyer," consulted him on the constitutionality of pending legislation...
...Senate floor, Ervin always stands with the South's segregationist bloc -and he is among the most skilled at arguing in constitutional terms, as opposed to racial epithets. This saddens some of his friends. Says one North Carolina associate: "I love Sam, but sometimes I just want to shake him." But then, everyone loves Sam. And New York's Republican Senator Jack Javits summed up that sentiment in the midst of a recent civil rights debate. Said Javits, when needled by Ervin: "The reason it's so hard to argue with opponents like him is that they...
...Saturday, taped so heavily he could hardly walk, Spitzberg go over the bar at 6 ft., 2 in., to tie Sam Streibert of Yale for first. Spitzberg made three excellent tries at 6 ft., in; on his final attempt the bar wavered agonizingly for more than a second before it fell...
...progress; now and then someone will remark that Things are Not as They Once Were, and the rest of the guests at tea will agree that This is Bad. But progress mostly marches backward; a theme of several Barsetshire books is the evolution of the crude factory owner, Sam Adams, into a mellow squire by marrying one of the lesser county girls and becoming Acceptable...