Word: speaker
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...Keverian is the one who is responsible for this," Shannon said. "The speaker has repeatedly communicated to me both directly through his staff and through members of the Legislature his unhappiness that there was and is an ongoing grand jury investigation of his office...
BOSTON--State Attorney General James Shannon lashed out at House Speaker George Keverian '53 (D-Everett) and the Massachusetts House yesterday, saying his ethics bill and a corruption probe into the speaker's office led House leaders to cut his budget...
Congressman Wilbur Mills, who starred with stripper Fanne Fox at the Tidal Basin in 1974, is a recent prodigal of drink. Many others preceded him. John Quincy Adams complained mightily about House Speaker Henry Clay's roaring drunks abroad in 1814, when they were there for the Treaty of Ghent, ending...
...timers remember that Estes Kefauver's Senate hideaway was littered with "dead soldiers." Harry Truman had just arrived for a bourbon or two at the "Board of Education," Speaker Sam Rayburn's daily happy hour, when he was summoned to power. Anyone who believes a fellow did not get tiddly now and then in Mr. Sam's quaint quarters lives in fantasy...
...Jersey and "leader of the colored race in America." As Martin Bauml Duberman observes in his compassionate biography, extravagant predictions were still being made for Paul Robeson 21 years later. The son of an escaped slave had already risen to international celebrity as a singer, actor and public speaker, and no limits were set on his future. Hardly anyone foresaw that he was standing on the edge of an irreversible decline...