Word: denton
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Foremost among these is Bill Moyers, only 29 but an on-again, off-again Johnson aide for nearly a decade. After two years at North Texas State College in Denton-where he was twice elected class president-Moyers joined Johnson's Washington staff as a vacation-time helper in 1954, turned in an impressive performance. At summer's end he went home, acquired a journalism degree at the University of Texas while working part time for Lady Bird's television station in Austin...
...hastily dug grave in Fort Worth's Rose Hill cemetery. The arrangements were made quietly by the Secret Service. The only mourners were Oswald's 56-year-old mother Marguerite, his Russian-born wife Marina, 22, his two baby daughters and his brother Robert, 29, a Denton, Texas, brick salesman...
...Gulf Chairman William K. Whiteford, 62, a rugged, casual oilman who started out as an Oklahoma roustabout, Spencer seemed ideally suited to become a Gulf subsidiary. Spencer's President John C. Denton, 44, was just as eager to accept Gulf's offer. He felt a need for more expansion capital to meet sharpening competition, especially in the plastic lines Spencer also makes. Spencer received several other suitors before settling on Gulf. Mrs. Helen Spencer, the largest shareholder, with 14% of the 3,000,000 outstanding shares, particularly liked what she felt was Gulf's "empathy" toward...
...Finally, I for one do not adhere to the view Denton says he received from his Negro friend in Harvard College that whites qua whites cannot grasp the essentials of Negro experiences in modern times, and assist in eradicating the consequences of these experiences. However, from Denton's article it is clear that he himself is in no position whatever to answer this view-point one way or the other. Despite the fact that he is himself a Negro, Herbert Denton possesses a pitifully superficial understanding of the Negro's experience, both past and present. Martin Kilson Lecturer on Government...
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