Word: birching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This Sunday there will be a "Dump Nixon" rally in Providence, Rhode Island, organized by Allard Lowenstein, who organized the successful "Dump Johnson" movement in 1968. Congressmen Bella Abzug, Donald Riegel, and Pete McClosky, and Senators Birch Bayh and Edmund Muskie are co-sponsoring the rally, which will be held on the steps of the State House beginning at 4 p. m. Alex Taylor, Joni Mitchell, and Paul Butterfield will also be on hand, apparently to show people that protest politics can be entertaining...
When the roll call began in a hushed and crowded chamber, opponents of the SST proceeded slowly in the hope that one of their number, Indiana Democrat Birch Bayh, could return in time from a Colorado skiing trip, which he had recklessly extended to the day of the vote. Slowed by icy roads, Bayh missed a flight-and the roll call...
...disclosed that the Army had spied on a number of U.S. politicians, including Illinois State Treasurer Adlai Stevenson III, now a U.S. Senator. Ervin decided that the time had come for his subcommittee to act. In four weeks of hearings, he and his colleagues, including Liberal Democrats Ted Kennedy, Birch Bayh and John Tunney, heard 45 witnesses. Among them...
Bull Session. At the three-day conference there was talk of other things besides welfare and money: the environment, urban programs, even a bit of 1972 politics. Indiana's Senator Birch Bayh, a presidential hopeful, dropped most of the Democratic Governors personal notes asking them to come by his office for a chat. Maine's Governor Kenneth Curtis, North Carolina's Robert Scott and Missouri's Warren Hearnes put together a cocktail party for Edmund Muskie. But even presidential politics could not keep the Governors from their preoccupation with finding a means to have the Federal...
...membership of the subcommittee-which is a branch of Senate Judiciary Committee-includes Senators Robert C Byrd (D-W. Va.), Strom Thur-mond (R-S.C.), Birch Bayh (D-Ind.), Sam J. Ervin (D-N.C.), John McClelian (D-A??k.), and Hugh Scott...