Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years in the forefront in the battle against the continual dehumanizing of the Negro, the strongest and warmest friends that rallied to our cause were the Jews. This was so true during the early days, when the "good guys in the big white hats" were standing aloof from those of us (Negroes and Jews) who were fighting this lonely and dangerous battle where the action and the issues were so clear...
...Farmer's type of militancy was not aggressive enough for the times. Another disappointment came in 1966, when Farmer was asked by the Johnson Administration to head a literacy program funded by a $900,000 grant from the Office of Economic Opportunity. The project was killed, reportedly because big-city politicians suspected that it would in effect become a black voter-registration drive and would cut into their white middle-class bastions...
...adjust tax rates in order to deflate or reflate the economy over short periods. "In the first place, people are entitled to be heard when taxes are to be increased. I don't know any place in the White House where the President could have a hearing room big enough to hear those who would want to discuss increases in taxes. But the main thing in my mind is that I just don't feel that taxes can be raised and lowered, season by season, or that they should be, to accomplish those short-run objectives. I have...
...Ivan Yakubovsky, the commander of the Warsaw Pact, arrived in East Berlin for a conference-held, according to the East German news agency, in a "brotherly fighting spirit"-with military leaders from the other six Warsaw Pact countries. Yakubovsky has a Btfsplkian habit of turning up just before something big happens; he visited Berlin shortly before the Wall went up in 1961, and his tour of East Europe last summer preceded the invasion and occupation of Czechoslovakia...
...keep West Germany from getting nuclear weapons by pressuring Bonn into signing the nuclear nonproliferation treaty. Those Soviet goals would be imperiled by a new showdown in Berlin. As West German Foreign Minister Willy Brandt put it, "The higher interest of the Soviet Union argues against a big crisis...