Word: birching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mayor Theodore R. McKeldin of Baltimore charged tonight that "Barry Goldwater reached a tacit understanding with the Ku Klux Klan and the John Birch Society that he would vote against the Civil Rights Bill of 1964 in exchange for their support...
...organizations as to who their allies and who their opponents are, as a clear perspective facilitates social struggle. We will be found in almost any organization for peace, for jobs, or for freedom. Naturally we do not join subversive organizations such as the Ku Klux Klan or the John Birch Society. We join with people in their everyday and long-rang struggle for a better life...
...inspirational speeches about party unity; many unforgiving Republicans are positively smacking their lips in anticipation of the revenge they will take on him for his defection in '64. In Miami, Pennsylvania's Governor William Scranton recently urged Republicans to isolate the "radical fringe," presumably meaning the John Birch Society. In Arizona, a syndicated columnist named Goldwater said that he thought the party might do better to exorcise its "left side...
...renewal foes from Charlestown and Roxbury, along with members of Students for a Democratic Society, and representatives of the John Birch society, had gathered to rally the cause of the North Harvard residents. Shortly after Boston city counsilor Katherine Craven, a colorful and outspoken renewal critic heard of the situation and rushed to the scene...
Reading about the battle of the sycamores in today's CRIMSON reminds me of another road being quietly built along this side of the river between the Eliot and Arsenal bridges. The not unpleasant little stand of scrub red birch that used to be there, below the cemetery, will soon be replaced by pavement and another stream of the ubiquitous cars that seem to come out of the woodwork nowadays. Roger A. C. Williams...