Word: abolitionism
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Therefore, I urge you as strongly as I can to undertake the following one year program: (1) issue a proclamation restoring full citizenship to all those who opposed or refused to participate in the illegal, immoral and genocidal wars of naked and raw aggression by our government since WWII, whatever...
At week's end the election campaign was beginning to take shape. Whitlam will obviously try to capitalize on the public's anger at what it considers to be Kerr's usurpation of power; he hoped to gain a large sympathy vote by hammering away at the...
Steinberg also depicts Rayburn as an early friend of blacks, despite his rejection of Truman's 1948 civil rights package, which included the elimination of some Jim Crow laws, the abolition of the poll tax and a federal anti-lynching law. Steinberg's explanation: "Rayburn knew that his friend's...
The second part of the campaign seeks to democratize the economy by eliminating the private ownership of large corporations. Although this is economic democracy in the more orthodox socialist sense, the method proposed is rather innovative. The same L.O. convention which called for the abolition of Paragraph 32 also commissioned...
Hills concedes that any change in 394 must be done carefully, but does not believe its abolition would mean the end of the N.Y.S.E. Even in advance of any change in the rule there are already signs of a trend away from the floor. Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, the...