Word: sam
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...intended for campaign purposes but was returned to Hughes this year. The Hughes associates' testimony was not disclosed. At one point, however, Hughes Attorney Chester Davis opened a tattered briefcase and dumped bundles of subpoenaed $100 bills, bound in rubber bands, onto the table in front of Chairman Sam Ervin...
...which controls prices for gasoline, heating oil and other petroleum products. That should end the type of bureaucratic delay that recently held up for three months an urgently needed mandatory allocation plan for fuels-a plan that, significantly, was originally drafted by Simon. As Simon explained to TIME Correspondent Sam Iker...
...like many laymen, a number of churchmen have reacted with prayer and indignation to Watergate (now an entry, along with words like Adiaphora and Suttee, in the new Baker's Dictionary of Christian Ethics). Yet moral outrage from the pulpit is not as widespread as it might be; Sam Ervin has quoted the Bible on the issue ("God is not mocked") more often and more effectively than many a preacher. Items...
Blacks have been protesting these rules for more than 20 years. In 1966 black workers at U.S. Steel's massive mill operations near Birmingham, Ala., took the company and several union locals to court. This past August, Federal Judge Sam C. Pointer Jr. ordered...
These fears were exaggerated; nevertheless, Sam Adams led a meeting of the patriots that decided to enlist the aid of the South End Mob of Boston and dump tea from three British cargo ships into Boston Harbor. "Many persons," an exultant John Adams wrote at the time, "wish that as many dead carcasses were floating in the harbor as there are chests of tea." The effect of the action, conclude historians Morrison and Commager, was to commit the patriots once and for all to the use of violent means against the British oppressors...