Word: addresses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unholy, self-perpetuating alliances [that] have been formed between money and politics." Among other things, he repeated his endorsement of the idea of a national health system-an expensive proposition for an anti-Government candidate to advance in an anti-Government year. Afterward, Cartel pronounced his acceptance address deliberately Populist in tone; asked if he considered himself a Populist, he replied, "I think...
...inaugural address as Georgia Governor in 1971, Carter castigated the "powerful and privileged few," and he called for "simple justice" for "the poor, rural, weak or black." In his Law Day speech at the University of Georgia in May 1974, he lamented that "poor people ... are the only ones who serve jail sentences." When he announced his presidential candidacy in December 1974, Carter inveighed against Government that is run from "an ivory tower," against "gross tax inequities," against "a business executive who can charge off a $50 luncheon on a tax return and a truck driver who cannot deduct...
...month ago, Philadelphia City Councilman Louis Johanson said that he would not vote for Carter under any circumstances. But he did-after his fallen favorite, Scoop Jackson, asked him to. By then the still-cynical Johanson had heard Brown address the delegation and cracked that "the difference between a babbling Baptist and a jumping Jesuit isn't that much." One reluctant Manhattan delegate, Harold Jacob, criticized Carter for not making clear where he stands on Israel and other issues (like emigration from the Soviet Union) of concern to Jews, but he softened after the nomination of Fritz Mondale...
...part of our Bicentennial observances TIME asked leaders of nations round the world to address the American people through the pages of TIME on how they view the U.S. and what they hope, and expect, from the nation in the years ahead. This message from Tanzania's President Julius K. Nyerere is the fourth in a series...
Model planes go catatonic in midflight. Automatic garage doors open mysteriously in the night. Truckers' chatter interrupts ministers' sermons over church public address systems. Traffic lights go berserk. TV pictures flutter. And a solid-state sewing machine suddenly shouts to a startled Indiana housewife the password of the invading force, "Breaker! Breaker!" These strange goings-on are caused not by UFOs or other extraterrestrial goblins, but by RFI (radio frequency interference), an electronic epidemic spread by the nation's 15 million Citizens Band radios (TIME...