Word: smithing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first period against John Overdeck on a takedown and a near-fall, and went on to pin the Tech 167-pounder at 4:28. Robbins, beaten in his first two starts by highly-rated Cornell and Franklin and Marshall heavyweights, came up with an easy victory, pinning Jack Smith...
...been pinned in both his starts at 147, meets the varsity's Nick Estabrook. In the heavyweight division, Ted Robbins, defeated by two of the top men in the East, Cornell's Dunlop and F & M's Pfrommer, should have much easier going against Engineer soph Jack Smith...
Next to Speaker Sam Rayburn, 76, a 23-termer to whom the Lower House is a home, 14-term Virginia Democrat Howard Worth Smith is the most powerful Congressman. "Judge" Smith, 75, chairman of the Rules Committee, is the wintry-eyed gatekeeper who decides which legislation written by other committees gets to the floor for debate. A venerable stone wall against spending pressures. Smith drew the postelection ire of some 165 members of the new, liberal House, who mumbled direly about changing House rules to cut Smith's power, tripped off some brave headlines about "revolt...
...powerful Congressman was to enlist the sympathy of Mr. Sam himself. Meekly, they wrote to him at his home in Bonham, Texas to petition for an interview. Carefully, they grapevined the gist of their case: they wanted nothing, really, except to increase the Speaker's own control over Smith's difficult committee. Perhaps, they hinted, Mr. Sam would add an extra liberal Democrat to the Rules Committee (eight Democrats, four Republicans), thus weaken Smith's coalition of conservative Republicans and Southern Democrats...
American Airlines moved closer to settling the 2½-week-old walkout of 1,500 pilots. American's gritty President C. R. Smith flew to Washington for a summit conference with the hard-bitten boss of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. Air Line Pilots Association, Clarence Sayen. Pressure was on both sides to settle before American starts to lay off most of its 20,500 nonstriking employees this week. Probable terms: three pilots in jets, higher pilot pay and improved benefits...