Word: ad
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...thing was that even Mc-Comb, consistently the most intransigent of the intransigent, was obviously awed by the fact that there is a rule of law. The day before the Biloxi hearing started, 650 of the town's leading doctors, lawyers, ministers and businessmen placed a full-page ad in the Mc-Comb Enterprise-Journal declaring that "the time has come for responsible people to speak out for what is right and against what is wrong." Said the ad's signers, who described themselves as "Citizens for Progress": "There is only one responsible stance we can take...
Apparently, the ad had a salutary effect. The day after it appeared, 20 Negroes led by Charles Evers, brother of murdered Civil Rights Leader Medgar Evers, turned up at a segregated theater and several restaurants and motels...
...appears that many political analysts have overlooked the most significant reason for George Murphy's senatorial victory in California. A few days before the election. Walt Disney publicly endorsed Mr. Murphy in a full-page ad printed in major newspapers throughout the state. A vote against Murphy would have been a vote against Disney. That's like voting against apple pie. Mr. Murphy was carried into office by clinging to Mary Poppins' coattails...
Kenya's Prime Minister Jomo Kenyatta, chairman of an ad hoc Congo Reconciliation Commission set up by the Organization of African Unity, appealed to "all authorities in the Congo to do nothing that would be inhuman toward civilians in their custody...
...source of all this bustle is Walter Peter Marshall. 63, the company's $141,000-a-year president. A Brooklyn-born, Manhattan-schooled accountant who is one-eighth Cherokee, Marshall got into communications accidentally by answering a help-wanted ad by All America Cables in the mistaken belief that it manufactured cables rather than sent them. After working up to executive vice president of Postal Telegraph, he came to Western Union in the 1943 merger that gave W.U. a monopoly on domestic telegraph business. When he became president in 1948, Western Union looked ready for the undertaker. With...