Word: samuel
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After popular Andrew Jackson was done out of the presidency in 1824.* the demand for reform intensified. Fuel was added to the flames in 1876, when Democrat Samuel J. Tilden outcounted Republican Rutherford B. Hayes in popular votes, but lost on the electoral tally in a contest that reeked of bribery and ballot stuffing. In 1888 Democrat Grover Cleveland won a popular plurality, but Republican Benjamin Harrison carried the college. As years passed, reformers proposed more than 100 constitutional amendments that would change the electoral college system, but conservatives and champions of the federal system scuttled them...
...schools might not get his money back should the State finally take control of the New Orleans schools. State aid to the city's schools comes to 57 per cent of their budget, and with $2,300,000 needed for imminent payrolls, the board's lawyer, Samuel Rosenberg, has stated that its position has become "completely untenable." "From a practical point of view, the board is reaching a point where it will, regardless of the orders of the court, be unable to operate the schools," Rosenberg said. He has asked the three judge commission now deciding whether to maintain Judge...
...Foundation, Omnibus saw a shifting list of 16 blue-chip sponsors (including the current one, Aluminium, Ltd.) pay for an average of only 70% of its time, and the program jockeyed uncomfortably between the three networks. The years also saw some memorable shows: Peter Ustinov playing "The Life of Samuel Johnson," Leonard Bernstein describing "What Makes Opera Grand," Joseph Welch pondering "Capital Punishment." The program had lived up to the credo of its imaginative producer, Robert Saudek: "I don't believe in the principle of the high rating. My faith lies in the well-conceived idea, the well-written...
...time passed, the park became a mishmash of changing tastes: there were Roman gods, a Joan of Arc, a majestically cloaked Saint-Gaudens Pilgrim, a copy of Rodin's naked Thinker. Then in 1913 the wealthy Mrs. Ellen Phillips Samuel, daughter of a Philadelphia iron tycoon, left in her will a trust fund to be used to buy "statuary emblematical of the history of America." Emblem No 1 was a sturdy Icelandic Viking named Thorfinn Karlsefni; after him came a procession of American types-a Ploughman, an Immigrant, a Slave, a Miner. Finally in 1950 the city decided...
...Illinois, white-thatched New Deal Democrat Paul Douglas, 68, bettered his 1954 majority, overwhelmed Republican Lawyer Samuel Witwer to win his third term in the Senate...