Word: sieminski
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...35th Division in World War I. acutely unhappy. He called it an "aluminum monstrosity" that "will look like a row of polished tepees upon the side of the mountains," and proposed that the appropriation of $3.000,000 be sharply cut. New Jersey's Democrat Alfred D. Sieminski, a veteran of World War II and the Korean war, disagreed, crying that airmen "fight and die in aluminum planes. They can worship in aluminum if they can die in it, can they...
...Jersey's 13th District, incumbent Democrat Alfred D. Sieminski, 45, trailed Republican Norman Roth by 149 votes after his district's 282 voting machines had been counted. But Sieminski won 637 absentee votes to Roth's 431, finally edged his opponent 54,841 to 54,784, became the only Hudson County Democrat to withstand a G.O.P. rout of the Kenny machine...
...bank. In the 14th District, bumptious Democrat T. (for Thomas) James Tumulty, whose boast it was that he carried more weight (330 Ibs.) than any man in Congress, ran well behind 49-year-old Auditor Vincent J. null In the 13th District, 45-year-old Major Alfred Sieminski, a Princeton-educated laundry operator who was elected to the House in 1950 while serving in Korea, apparently lost (by 200 votes) to Republican Norman Roth, assistant counsel to the county board of education...
...Thought for a minute that it was going to see a fist fight between Ohio's Democratic Representative Wayne Hays and New Jersey's Democratic Representative Alfred Sieminski. Trouble started when Hays accused Lieut. General (ret.) Joseph M. Swing, the U.S. Immigration Commissioner, of "arrogance," said he had been warned not to cross Swing lest the commissioner interfere with Hays's efforts to get citizenship for his adopted two-year-old German daughter. Cried Hays: "I will guarantee that if he did try that, when I got him face to face he would not be physically able...
...were highly emotional. Said South Carolina's Democratic Representative Mendel Rivers: "I believe while this thing is fraught with danger, it is far more dangerous to be guilty of inaction than to be guilty of action. I believe in action." Cried New Jersey's Democratic Representative Alfred Sieminski: "Does mainland China want Japan on Formosa? Does Russia want Japan in Korea? That is the issue both face. It seems to me that memories of the past should remind Peking and Moscow that they have never had it so good in the Pacific. Heaven help them if they move...