Word: samuel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Texas, and hundreds of other dignitaries from all over the U.S. At the door of the church, William ("Fishbait") Miller, longtime chief doorkeeper of the House, greeted the distinguished mourners and quietly ushered them to their seats. Out front, an overflow crowd of the friends and neighbors of Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn waited in the street...
...staunchly conservative, nonpartisan Charter Government has cleaned up the city's fabled old gambling and vice rings and won at least 50 civic awards for its efficient ways. With that kind of record, Charter Government should have waltzed to re-election this year. Instead, Phoenix's Mayor Samuel Mardian Jr. and his incumbent city councilmen found themselves in a bitter fight over an improbable, implausible issue. The charge: that Charter Government's candidates-as well as Barry Goldwater-were soft on Communism...
...Died. Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn, 79, member of the U.S. House of Representatives for a record 49 years. Speaker for an unmatched 17 (more than twice as long as his nearest competitor, Henry Clay); of cancer; in Bonham, Texas (see THE NATION...
...Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., by Sir John Hawkins, Knt. No biography could replace Boswell's, but this one, written four years before Bozzy's and then chased out of print by literary feudists, is well worth the time of Johnson fans...
...Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., by Sir John Hawkins, Knt. Well worth the time of Johnson fans, this full-length biography of the lexicographer was written four years before Boswell's, by a man who knew him considerably longer. The book became a victim of literary feuding, and this is the first printing since the 1780s...