In 1945, probably almost every American not only knew who Sam Spade was, but had some kind of emotional feeling about him.

Sam Rayburn was a good man, a good American, and, third, a good Democrat.

Sam Rayburn took unnumbered secrets with him to the grave, for he was never loquacious, and his word, once given, was not subject to retraction.

Mr. Truman has only to recall the `` hopeless '' campaign of 1948 to remember what a loyal partisan he was and the first experience of Mr. Kennedy with Congress would have been sadder than it was had not Mr. Sam been there.

Under any name -- Mr. Speaker, Mr. Democrat, Mr. Sam -- he was a good man.

`` Uncle Sam '' was, indeed, a rich uncle to Prokofieff, in those opulent, post-war victory years of peace and prosperity, bold speculations and extravaganzas, enjoyment and pleasure: `` The Golden Twenties ''.

The charge that the federal indictment of three Chicago narcotics detail detectives `` is the product of rumor, combined with malice, and individual enmity '' on the part of the federal narcotics unit here was made yesterday in their conspiracy trial before Judge Joseph Sam Perry in federal District court.

) But Speaker Sam Rayburn, after huddling in Palm Beach with President-elect Kennedy, decided that this year something had to be done about the Rules Committee -- and that he was the only man who could do anything effective.

He'd have to think, but the main thing, the imperative necessity, was to leave before Sam Bentley was up and about, and before Millie detained him with sympathy.

One month later, Johnston was promoted to major and the position of aide-de-camp to General Sam Houston.

" When the final payment on the farm was owed, Sam May refused to cover his brother-in-law's debts, as he often did, possibly at Abby May's suggestion.

The Ark was taken by the Philistines ( 1 Sam.

The people of Ashdod were smitten with hemorrhoids ; a plague of rats was sent over the land ( 1 Sam.

The affliction of boils was also visited upon the people of Gath and of Ekron, whither the Ark was successively removed ( 1 Sam.

The Ark was set in the field of Joshua the Beth-shemite, and the Beth-shemites offered sacrifices and burnt offerings ( 1 Sam.

David's plan of building a temple for the Ark was stopped at the advice of God ( 2 Sam.

The Ark was with the army during the siege of Rabbah ( 2 Sam.

11: 11 ); and when David fled from Jerusalem at the time of Absalom's conspiracy, the Ark was carried along with him until he ordered Zadok the priest to return it to Jerusalem ( 2 Sam.

* Uncle Sam ( initials U. S .) is a common national personification of the American government that according to legend came into use during the War of 1812 and was supposedly named for Samuel Wilson a meat packer in New York, who supplied rations for the soldiers.

He was of great service to David, especially at the time of the rebellion of Absalom ( 2 Sam.

When his father was slain with the priests of Nob, he escaped, and bearing with him the ephod, he joined David, who was then in the cave of Adullam ( 1 Sam.

Although Roh was from a military background and one of the leaders of Chun's coup d ' etat, the inability of the opposition leaders Kim Dae Jung and Kim Young Sam to agree on a unified candidacy led to his being elected.

* 1836 – Sam Houston is elected as the first president of the Republic of Texas.

* September 5 – Sam Houston is elected as the first president of the Republic of Texas.

* October 22 – Sam Houston is inaugurated as first elected President of the Republic of Texas.

They elected Henry Smith as governor, and Sam Houston was appointed commander-in-chief of the regular Army of Texas.

In 1835, one year before being elected first President of the Republic of Texas, Sam Houston founded the Holland Masonic Lodge.

1427 ), Sam was elected Mayor of the Shire for the first of seven consecutive seven-year terms.

Other elected officers include Tax Commissioner Kathy Brown, Sam " Laan " Cordle as Clerk of Superior and State Courts, Earle Rainwater as Coroner, and Jon Payne as Probate Judge and Election Superintendent.

Also elected to the town's council were: Angela Hall, Sam Allen, and Amy Knight all by Write In votes.

* Wilt Chamberlain is elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, along with coaches Sam Barry, Eddie Hickey, John McLendon, Ray Meyer and Pete Newell, and referee Jim Enright

In 1940, newly elected Governor Sam Houston Jones urged that Brooks be defeated in the Democratic congressional primary, but Brooks won his third term that year.

When Namibia gained its independence in 1990 SWAPO became the dominant political party, with its head, Sam Nujoma, elected as Namibia's first President.

When Congressman Sam D. McReynolds of Tennessee's 3rd district, which included Chattanooga, died in 1939, Kefauver was elected to succeed him in the House.

In 1836, the fighting ended and Sam Houston became the first president of the Republic of Texas, elected on a platform that favored annexation to the United States.

* Stanley Brehaut Ryerson, Sam Carr, Charles Simms and Norman Freed were LPP Toronto aldermen while Stewart Smith was elected to the city's Board of Control.

The general secretary of the Yorkshire NUM, Sam Thompson, wrote to NUM members encouraging them to attend the selection meeting in January 1987, Illsley was selected and then easily elected to the House of Commons in the general election in June 1987.

In 1962, Hall was elected to the Texas State Senate after incumbent Ray Roberts won a special election to replace Sam Rayburn in Congress.

However, late in 1841 he was named Texas Secretary of State by president Sam Houston, who had been recently been elected president again by opponents of Lamar.

" Sam " Hayakawa, the President of San Francisco State University, who had never held elected office.

In May 1979, Kim Young Sam was elected as the chairman of New Democratic Party ( NDP ) despite intense behind-the-scene manueverings by KCIA to back a more pliable candidate Yi Chul-seung.

When Kim Young Sam was elected as the NDP chairman, Cha laid the blame on KCIA, which infuriated Kim.

As these forces prepared to invade, including elements of the 82nd Airborne already in the air, a diplomatic element led by former President Jimmy Carter, U. S. Senator Sam Nunn and retired Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Colin Powell persuaded the leaders of Haiti to step down and allow the elected officials to return to power.

While the elected local officers were the nominal leaders of the strike at its outset, Bridges led the planning of the strike along with his friend Sam Kagel, the rank-and-file opposition to the two proposed contracts that the leadership negotiated and the membership rejected during the strike, and the dealings with other unions during and after the four-day San Francisco General strike after " Bloody Thursday " on July 5, when police aided the Waterfront Employers Association in trucking cargo from the pierheads to the warehouses through the union's picket line.

It has two Labour Party councillors ; Sam Burden ( Hall Green's first elected Labour Councillor, was elected in the 2011 May elections ) and Barry Bowles ( elected in May 2012 ) and is the Chair of the Ward Committee.