Word: booths
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spiting themselves. Money is not intrinsically either representative or progressive. If capital is to be used consciously to promote social change, the powers which control capital cannot be left to determine the direction of that change. Presumably civil rights groups would rather have their fate decided in the voting booth than at the Stock Exchange. They should be happy that business has remained as open as it has to political leadership in racial matters. The impersonality of finance capital should not be discarded lightly in favor of a more socially-oriented economic system. Perhaps we should let sleeping moneybags...
...part of any attempt on the life of a prominent political figure. Such work is too dangerous. That leaves two types of assassinations: the conspiracy, as in the death of Lincoln, and the person-to-person attack. But the conspiracy against Lincoln was conceived and directed by John Wilkes Booth, Dr. Robinson argued, so even Booth really fits the more modern pattern: "A single man with a desire that results from long brooding to destroy a leader who is antagonistic to some belief that is very important to the assassin. The political figure has become a personal enemy...
...Booth, said Dr. Robinson, had told his friends: "What a glorious opportunity for a man to immortalize himself by killing Lincoln!" This concept may motivate more assassins than is now realized. "It may have been a major motivation to Lee Oswald. We know Oswald was unhappy in school, in the Marine Corps, in the Soviet Union, and in his own country. He probably would have tried to become an anarchist if he had lived around...
...Perhaps we can say that in Booth, in Leon Czolgosz who shot McKinley, and in Oswald we have three men who were very much alike in basic personality defects. We must assume that they did not expect to change the basic political philosophy of the country. There must have been other motives. Two interlocking concepts seem possible: 1) that they were seeking immortality, and 2) that they were destroying the symbol of the highest authority. Their victim was a symbol of their general basic anger against the social order...
...urged its passage in front-page editorials on five different days. The Chamber of Commerce, labor unions and most church groups added their agreement. About the only organized opposition came from the Kansas City Tavern Owners' Association, whose president, Charles Geneva, predicted: "In the privacy of the voting booth, a lot of people will vote against this racial bill...