Word: samuels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Senator: Samuel W. (for William) Yorty, 45, two-term Congressman from Los Angeles who made a brief splash in Washington last year by beating his party's leadership to the punch in denouncing Defense Secretary Wilson's Air Force cutback (TIME, June 1). When, at 27, Sam Yorty was elected to the state assembly, his reputation as a radical resulted in a charge before the Dies Committee that he was a Communist. In 1940 he veered so far to the right that he founded the assembly's Communist-hunting committee which rawhided Democratic Governor Culbert L. Olson...
...SAMUEL ENGLE BURR JR.* Executive Director The Aaron Burr Association Washington...
Roosevelt's attorney Samuel Picone pointed out that the evidence suggested by the 1945 letter is now barred by the statute of limitations, "and the only conclusion that can be drawn is that [the 1945 admissions] were incorporated therein for sensational purposes." After issuing the statement, Jimmy Roosevelt almost quit the congressional race. He said he would not seek the office. Friends said that if his statement got a favorable reaction, he might re-enter the fight...
...Samuel Green is head of Wesleyan University's art department, considers himself an amateur. His thoughtful realism, at the opposite pole from Motherwell's work, creates an effect of mere niggling or near magic, depending on the viewer...
...Samuel Johnson was his good friend, and wrote an account of the Life of Mr. Savage in 1744. Savage provided Johnson with his best study of character--a great arrogant pride, amasing personal charm, and yet both equalized by a knack of saying the wrong thing at the wrong time. When George II took the throne in 1727, Savage wrote a poem eulogizing him, but typically made the mistake of praising George I whom George II hated. This was the pattern for most of his mistakes, for diplomatically he was a blockhead. Pope seemed to fascinate him, and together they...