Word: addresses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...quote from the presidential address of Dr. Robert Boal to the Illinois State Medical Society...
Soviet Aid. Ironically the Russians helped create the Eurodollar ten years ago, and probably gave it its name. Soviet-controlled banks in Western Europe began accumulating dollar balances and, fearing that they might be frozen if deposited in the U.S., loaned them to other European banks. The cable address of the Soviet-backed bank in Paris was "Eurobank," and so financiers began asking for "Eurobank dollars" and finally just "Eurodollars...
...Harvard Student Union scheduled a rally for the morning of April 20, 1940, and arranged for Michael J. Quill to address the gathering. (This is the same Michael J. Quill who died earlier this year leading the New York transit worker's strike.) Quill was, even then, a prominent leader of the CIO and president of the Transport Workers Union. Objecting to the "pseudo-peace stand" and the Communist affiliations of the Student Union, the Harvard Anti-War Committee planned a rival peace meeting the afternoon of April 20, with Norman Thomas, Socialist candidate for President, as guest speaker...
...accepting Robertson's invitation to address a NUSAS forum on academic freedom, Senator Kennedy handed the South African government one of its worst headaches in years. The thought of a civil rights champion holding forth in the bastion of white supremacy was only slightly less appalling to the South Africans than the prospect of refusing a visa to a possible future president of the United States. By stating his intention to visit South Africa in spite of the banning, Senator Kennedy has refused to abandon the South African students at a time when they most need outside encouragement. By associating...
...object to a "Mrs. Murphy clause"* exempting owners occupying small houses from any compulsion to rent to Negroes. Katzenbach emphasized nonetheless: "The ending of compulsory residential segregation has become a national necessity. Law must lead and law must protect in this vital area." Congress, he suggested, must now "address itself to the vindication of what is, in substance, the freedom to live...