Word: sam
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...G.O.P. floor manager for the bill, dawdled with his yellow pencil; the South's floor manager, Louisiana's Edwin Willis, scribbled on a note pad; New York's Emanuel Celler, the Democrats' floor manager, even left the chamber during the count. At length, Speaker Sam Rayburn spoke the finish: "On this vote, the yeas are 311, the nays...
...Governor Robert Meyner and Oregon's Wayne Morse. The smiling face of Senate Majority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson beamed from posters in the hotel corridors, with arrows underneath pointing to the suite where a hospitable supply of Jack Daniel's whiskey flowed. Moreover, sagacious House Speaker Sam Rayburn, 78, was on hand to exploit every advantage for Fellow Texan Johnson...
While he waited for his bus one chilly Saturday night, Sam Thompson, a bibulous Negro handyman, ducked into Louisville's Liberty End Cafe for a beer and a little fellowship. Under the influence of both and the rhythm of a blaring jukebox, Sam began shuffling a dance step. Two cops who happened by decided that his shuffling was in fact "loitering," and when Sam argued, they added a charge of disorderly conduct. A police court judge fined him $10 on each .charge. Under Kentucky law, Sam Thompson's case was closed-no fine under $20 can be appealed...
...court's unusual policing of police-court proceedings flashed a warning that convictions for loitering and disorderly conduct, often based on flimsy evidence or none at all, might now be toppled wholesale. But for Sam Thompson, who enjoyed a victory countless drunks have only dreamed of, the decision didn't mean much. When it was handed down, he was back in Jefferson County jail in Louisville, serving a six-month term on four other misdemeanor charges...
What all these people are up to even the playwright is not sure. But by last week both he and the cast were almost convinced that Sam is about a bank robbery in which the take includes 500,000 defective pound notes. (A Bank of England cashier named G. O. Dodd has signed them "Good God" by error.) Sam is accused and fired. A priest gets hold of the cash and distributes it to unwed pregnant women who "promise to stop it." Sam develops "delusions of grandeur, paranoia and schizophrenia." and decides that he is the world's greatest...