Word: sam
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...lost. But he lost few others over the next nine years, while building up a substantial reputation as a lawyer skilled in handling equity and corporate issues. Then, in 1938, two of Chicago's C.I.O. leaders-Van Bittner, a director of the Steelworkers' Organizing Committee, and Sam Levin of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers-asked Goldberg to represent the C.I.O.'s American Newspaper Guild, then on strike and in savage dispute with Hearst's Chicago Herald and Examiner. At that time both the C.I.O. and the Guild had Communists in high positions. "There was real trouble with...
...school bill went down to a crushing defeat; the House-Senate foreign aid program came seriously compromised out of the committee room. And so, with the last major business of the session cleared away, tired, taut House Speaker Sam Rayburn, 79, agreed to rest his ailing back (TIME, Sept. 1). Last week, with his niece Jane Bartley in tow, Rayburn packed up and flew off for an indefinite rest at his home in Bonham, Texas, leaving behind a promise to return in case any legislative trouble arises...
There was never any question about who would succeed Mr. Sam in the Speaker's high-backed swivel chair for the remainder of the session. For the eleventh time during his 17 years as House majority leader, Democrat John McCormack of Massachusetts was for mally elected as Speaker pro tern. Since there is little legislation pending that is likely to demand Mr. Sam's presence, McCormack will run the House until it adjourns toward the end of September. If Rayburn's health were to cause his resignation this session, McCormack would be the automatic choice...
...Rayburn's chief lieutenant, gaunt John McCormack, 69, has made little secret of his hope that some day he will follow Mr. Sam to the speakership. Whether the White House shares the same hope is a matter for debate. An up-from-poverty Bostonian, McCormack for years ran the Democratic Party in Massachusetts as his private constituency until, in 1956, rising young Senator John Kennedy smoothly took over. Swallowing that defeat, McCormack has publicly avowed his support for Kennedy ever since-but there are Democrats who think that the anger of "The Archbishop" (Roman Catholic McCormack's cloakroom...
...whole set if one goblet breaks). The New York Circulating Library of Paintings rents out its collection of contemporary works (Brackman, Segovia Jr., Purdy, etc.) for as little as $8 a month. And anybody who has everything but the kitchen sink can get that at the Lee Sam Plumbing & Heating Supply Co. in Manhattan...