Word: congressed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that the organizers of the Poor People's March on Washington have set up "an agency to process marchers' welfare checks" as they "prod Congress into granting greater aid to the 29,900,000 American poor." At least they will have something to live on while they protest against the Government's lack of concern for them...
...nation's rapidly spreading cancer is the addition of some 30,000 more troops to the riot-control brigades in Washington, D.C., in preparation for the Poor People's March [May 3]. It is very sad that this country's attitude, and especially the attitude of Congress, has been completely negative toward this demonstration, even before the Rev. Abernathy presents his requests. An avalanche of legislation is needed and it will only begin to right the wrongs to the poor people of this country. But my fellow Americans, following in the footsteps of an unsympathetic and misguided...
Something is seriously wrong with the way power is allocated within the American university. The recent disruptions at Columbia and elsewhere have dramatized this problem--Congress will not now solve it by trying to punish the students who have raised...
Above all, the problem is not Congress' to solve. It is the job of each university, and not of the United States Government, to determine whether and how students and faculty are to be punished for breaking university regulations. The present House effort to "help" the universities in settling their own internal problems is an unnecessary and unjustifiable intervention into higher education...
...proposed measure is all the more inane for its discriminatory quality: it can affect only those students who are unable to pay for their own education, and will leave the rest untouched. Unable to punish the rich students involved in campus disruptions, Congress has apparently decided to crush the poor ones...