Word: connor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Coles blames much of the present tenseness of Roxbury on Louise Day Hicks and her cohorts. "Roxbury Negroes with a past in the South associates her with Bull Connor, "he said. She makes the same repressive, uncomprehending, vicious response to their problems that the Southern sheriffs do, he elaborated...
...within the framework of their similar ideo logical positions. "I didn't have much to lose," says Moynihan of his only try for elective office. "It was like a $2 bet at the races." He lost the bet-Queens District Attorney Frank O'Connor defeated him handily. The day after the election, the telephone rang: the M.I.T.-Harvard Joint Center asked him to be director. Moynihan decided to spend a quieter year first, took a fellowship at Wesleyan (in Connecticut), then accepted the center's offer...
Choate, who was for years the paper's publisher, was right out of the old school of Boston newspaper publishing. Some say he was the model for Amos Force, the crusty, vengeful newspaper publisher in Edwin O'Connor's The Last Hurrah. Choate's vision of the role of the Herald and the Traveler in Boston would never have allowed him to cease so arbitrarily the publication of one or the other. But Akerson is a businessman, not a visionary, and for him the profit and loss sheet determines the length of a paper's life. The Traveler, whatever...
...decision, the Supreme Court last week upheld the 1963 conviction of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and seven other Negro civil rights leaders for defying an Alabama state court injunction against a civil rights march in Birmingham. King, whose group had been denied a parade license by burly "Bull" Connor, then Birmingham's commissioner of public safety, was sentenced by an Alabama court to a five-day jail term and $50 fine for carrying out the march despite the restraining order. Reviewing the case, the Supreme Court majority took the position that King could have appealed the injunction...
...John T. Connor, LL.D., president of Allied Chemical Corp., former U.S. Secretary of Commerce. Who has striven to humanize technology by recognizing its effects on people, on jobs, on higher living standard, and on the well-being of American families through a well-regulated economy...