Word: dewitte
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Richard M. Blau, Jacob R. Brackman, Peter M. Briggs, Gregory Brumfield, James C. Burrows, James T. Campen, Eric G. Chipman, John D. Fay, Alan Gilbert, Lenn E. Goodman, Stephen H. Goodwin, Robert J. Gorden, Anthony Graham-White, James E. Haber, Harry T. Hunt, David J. Israel, Richard Jacobson, Dewitt H. John Jr., David S. Kershaw, James R. King, Elliot M. Klein, David M. Kotz, Robert M. Leonhardt, and James I. Lepowsky...
Speaking for repeal, Bishop Robert L. DeWitt of Pennsylvania said: "Our church, like every other church, has said over and over again that discrimination, condescension and segregation are evil and of the devil. The Delta Ministry is located in one diocese. But those school bells, those courthouse bells, those church bells toll for us all." Chairman of the Delta Ministry, Paul Moore, suffragan bishop of Washington, was even more impassioned: "God is working through this movement. I've never sensed the Holy Spirit as I did in Mississippi...
...irritating preacher. In radio broadcasts over 617 stations, he accuses the major U.S. churches of being "infiltrated by Communists," assails Episcopal Bishop James Pike and top Presbyterian Eugene Carson Blake for distorting the Bible, opposes the civil rights movement and ecumenism. Writes Pennsylvania's Episcopal Bishop Robert DeWitt: Mclntire's "attacks upon the Protestant community, the Roman Catholic Church, the United Nations, and American foreign policy have established him as a negative and divisive force...
...Accusation. The first witness was Mayor Wagner himself. In an emotional appearance, he told this story. On the night of last Jan. 11, McKeon summoned six other Democratic state officials to a meeting in the manager's suite of Albany's DeWitt Clinton Hotel. Present besides McKeon were Nassau County Leader John English; Schenectady County Leader George Palmer; Joseph Crangle, subbing for Erie County Boss Peter J. Crotty; J. Raymond Jones, Negro chief of New York City's Tammany Hall; Queen's County Assemblyman Moses Weinstein, and New York City Election Commissioner Maurice...
Puppets. The mayor admitted that his knowledge of the double-lulu offer was secondhand, but said, "I verified the facts to the best of my ability and certainly to my satisfaction." According to Wagner, the offer was made in Room 939 at Albany's DeWitt Clinton Hotel to Manhattan Leader J. Raymond Jones, a Wagner supporter and the first Negro to head Tammany Hall. The Democratic chairman of Schenectady County, George Palmer, recalled the scene: "Jones comes in and looks around at me, McKeon and the others and says, 'Boys, I'm old enough to be your...