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Samuel James Ervin
Samuel James Ervin , 1896-1985, U.S. senator (1954-75), b. Morganton, N.C. Admitted to the bar in 1919, he became a distinguished jurist, serving as a judge on a county criminal court (1935-37), the North Carolina superior court (1937-43), and the state supreme court (1948-54), before being appointe... Read more
Watergate affair
Watergate affair in U.S. history, series of scandals involving the administration of President Richard M. Nixon ; more specifically, the burglarizing of the Democratic party national headquarters in the Watergate apartment complex in Washington, D.C. The Watergate Break-in On June 17, 19... Read more
William Booth
William Booth 1829-1912, English religious leader, founder and first general of the Salvation Army , b. Nottingham. Originally a local preacher for the Wesleyan Methodists, he went (1849) to London and entered (1852) the ministry of the Methodist New Connexion Church, but in 1861 he began independ... Read more
Uncle Sam
Uncle Sam name used to designate the U.S. government. The term arose in the War of 1812 and seems at first to have been used derisively by those opposed to the war. Possibly it was an expansion of the letters "U.S." on uniforms and government property, but some sources attribute the origin of t... Read more
Fort Sam Houston
Fort Sam Houston U.S. army base, 3,300 acres (1,335 hectares), S Tex., in San Antonio; headquarters of the Fifth Army. San Antonio, long a military center, donated land in 1870 for the site of a permanent military post that was constructed from 1876 to 1890 and named for Gen. Sam Houston. The famou... Read more
Sam Francis
Sam Francis 1923-94, American painter, b. San Mateo, Calif. Educated in medicine, Francis began painting while recovering from an injury received in World War II. His mural-sized paintings are stained with brilliant, transparent oil color. Small areas of color are concentrated irregularly over a ca... Read more
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Thomas Chandler Haliburton , pseud. Sam Slick, 1796-1865, Canadian jurist and author. Haliburton was a judge of the court of common pleas in 1829 and a judge of the provincial supreme court in 1841; he retired in 1856. He then moved to England, where he was a member of the House of Commons from ... Read more
Kim Young Sam
Kim Young Sam 1927-, South Korean political leader, b. Gyeongsang prov. He was first elected to the National Assembly in 1954 and served nine terms. A long-time political dissident and opponent of military rule, he was banned from politics from 1980 to 1985 and was twice subjected to house arrest. ... Read more
Sam Nunn
Sam Nunn (Samuel Augustus Nunn, Jr.), 1938-, U.S. Senator from Georgia (1973-97), b. Perry, Ga. A lawyer, he was a member of the Georgia House of Representatives (1968-72) and won election as a U.S. Senator in 1972. A conservative Democrat, he has been one of the Senate's more influential leaders, ... Read more
Nacogdoches
Nacogdoches , city (1990 pop. 30,872), seat of Nacogdoches co., E Tex., in a pine and hardwood forest area; settled 1779. Industries in the city include lumbering, livestock and poultry raising and processing, and the manufacture of feed, wood and electronic products, motor homes, and furniture. Tou... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to " Sam Ervin"

Sam J. Ervin Jr
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...x2014; the Watergate Committee. Sam Ervin was born September 27, 1896, in Morganton...Further Reading The only biography of Sam Ervin is Paul R. Clancy, Just a Country Lawyer (1974). Sam Ervin wrote of his experiences with the... Read more
Watergate affair
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...magnitude. The Investigations When a special Senate committee investigating corrupt campaign practices, headed by Senator Sam Ervin, began nationally televised hearings into the Watergate affair, former White House counsel John Dean testified that the... Read more
Woodward and Bernstein
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...resent their continuing revelations. Samuel Dash, the Democratic counsel to the Senate Select Committee chaired by Senator Sam Ervin of North Carolina, argued in his later book on the Senate investigation, Chief Counsel, that the admirable, early investigative... Read more
Watergate
Encyclopedia entry from: West's Encyclopedia of American Law ...1972 campaign and its connections with the White House. Finally, the Senate investigating committee headed by Senator sam j. ervin jr. began to call Nixon aides to testify before it. Nixon, who initially called the break-in "a third rate burglary... Read more

Dictionary entries related to " Sam Ervin"

Immigration Act of 1965
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...restrictionist die-hards, such as Senator Sam Ervin (Democrat from North Carolina), tried to maintain the status quo. Ervin insisted that the McCarran-Walter...similar background already here." What Ervin never admitted was that the "mirror... Read more
Investigating Committees
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...of the Watergate scandals. Both the House of Representatives, with Peter Rodino serving as chair, and the Senate, with Sam Ervin serving as chair, established Watergate investigating committees. Both Houses als Read more

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Drawing pictures of horses: "There are two ways to draw a picture of a horse. One is to draw a picture of a horse. The other is to draw a picture of a horse and write under it, 'Horse'".(FROM THE EDITOR)
Magazine article from: Healthcare Financial Management; 1/1/2006; ; 445 words ; ...person who made this comment: Sen. Sam Ervin, the self-proclaimed country lawyer...investigated the Watergate affair. Ervin's comment referred to the committee...never said. These are bad things. Ervin was confident that the specifics themselves... Read more
Garrott-Thomas. (2003 Wedding Register).
Magazine article from: Mississippi Magazine; 1/1/2003; 396 words ; ...the son of Mr. and Mrs. Lent Ervin Thomas III, also of Batesville...grandparents are Dr. and Mrs. Joseph Sam and Mrs. Johnson Garrott and...Polk and Mr. and Mrs. Lent Ervin Thomas II. The ceremony was...Rachel Palmertree; and Meredith Sam. They wore gowns of lilac crepe...Robison, and Melanie ... Read more
2006 was indeed a watershed election year.(republicans vs. democratics)
Magazine article from: New Hampshire Business Review; 11/24/2006; ; 700+ words ; Sam Ervin, the late North Carolina senator who served as chairman of the Senate Watergate Committee, used to quote scripture. One notable... Read more
Social HMOs: Moving Elderly Toward Home Care.
Magazine article from: Nursing Homes; 2/1/2000; 700+ words ; Based on an interview with Sam L. Ervin, President and CEO of SCAN Health Plan Long-term care is a complex issue. More seniors are living longer and healthier lives than... Read more
What's Right.
Magazine article from: National Review; 6/16/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...of political memories. Thirty years ago this summer, Sen. Sam Ervin took the gavel of a congressional committee to investigate...inquisitorial sidekick -- the whisperings of committee counsel Sam Dash -- were as ubiquitous that summer as Archie Bunker... Read more
Rare IRS Insurance Code Aids Company, Employees.
Magazine article from: Arkansas Business; 3/19/2001; ; 547 words ; ...it's a great way to make Uncle Sam pay for employee life insurance...investing tax-deferred money. John Ervin, owner of Ervin & Co. CPAs in Fayetteville, said...are 100 percent tax-deductible, Ervin said, and the money earns interest... Read more
White hats vs. black hats: who's who in Washington's scandal investigations.(10 MILES SQUARE)
Magazine article from: Washington Monthly; 5/1/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...but at least it generated some genuine investigative celebrities--team Woodward-Bernstein, lead counsel Sam Dash, and Democratic senator Sam Ervin, the country lawyer who chaired the Senate probe. Standout Republicans included Senate Watergate Committee... Read more
FORECASTS FOR AN AGING SOCIETY.(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: USA Today (Magazine); 8/1/2001; 340 words ; ...of great change in elder care looms, health care expert Sam L. Ervin told the World Future Society, Bethesda, Md. He sees trouble...help people prepare for this fast-approaching future, Ervin offers 12 forecasts that describe the facts of life for... Read more
Latham & Blakeney.(wedding register 2009)
Magazine article from: Mississippi Magazine; 1/1/2009; 417 words ; Elizabeth Danielle Latham and Matthew Ervin Blakeney were united in marriage on Saturday, March 8, 2008, in...Hinton, Jonathan Selman, Brett Selman, Josh Stegall, Ben Berch, and Sam Drew. Archie Sullivan, friend of the bride, served as junior groomsmen... Read more
A Faustian Bargain: U.S. Intervention in the Nicaragua Elections and American Foreign Policy in the Post-Cold War Era.
Magazine article from: The Progressive; 3/1/1993; ; 700+ words ; ...years of digging into the behavior of national-security officials who did not content themselves, as the late Senator Sam Ervin would have said, to remain on the windy side of the law. But don't hold your breath. President Clinton and Vice President... Read more