Word: clergymen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...than other forms of assistance permitted by the court, including the use of state funds to pay for the busing of parochial school pupils and some of their textbooks. If the Government did tax churches, Burger argued, it would become even more involved in religion as tax collectors and clergymen haggled over such matters as "tax valuation of church property, tax liens, tax foreclosures, and the direct confrontations and conflicts that follow in the train of those legal processes...
...Massachusetts Lawyers Guild has agreed to defend the group, and the Medical Committee on Human Rights will provide medics. Approximately 15 to 20 Boston-area clergymen and professors will act as legal and official witnesses...
...Gulf Oil Corp. held its meeting, police arrested seven persons during sidewalk disturbances. Inside the meeting hall, 50 proxy-bearing dissidents jeered, booed and shouted demands that Gulf end its defense contracts and stop doing business in Portugal's African colony of Angola. They were supported by several clergymen and professors. Defending Gulf's policies, Chairman E.D. ("Del") Brockett noted that the company supplies less than 4% of all fuel purchased by the Defense Department, and earns a lower margin of profit on it than on civilian sales. "Many derogatory public statements are being made about Gulf," said...
...strengths of last October's Moratorium Day observances was the diversity of the protesters: war veterans, businessmen, clergymen and housewives alongside gentle, earnest students and older radicals. That was not true last week for the third round of Moratorium observances. In too many cities across the nation, the day belonged to a new breed of hard-eyed youth-Brownshirts of radicalism drawn from the streets, many of only high-school age. The keynote was sounded by the Chicago Seven's Tom Hayden, who told a San Fernando Valley State College audience: "We turned out over a million people...
...film, which has a "relatively large budget," according to Ritchie, will portray the murder of three civil rights workers in Mississippi in 1964. The killing was conceived and carried out by two dozen leading citizens of Meridian and Neshoba counties, including lawmen, clergymen and businessmen...