Word: ernest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...some Congressmen were not very happy about it. Vermont's Republican Senator George Aiken insisted that his affirmative vote was by no means "an endorsement of the costly mistakes of the past." Oregon Democrat Wayne Morse, one of three Senators to vote nay (the others: Alaskan Democrat Ernest Gruening and Wisconsin Democrat Gaylord Nelson), seemed almost hysterical. "My government," he cried, "today stands before the world drunk with military power...
...believe that integration is contrary to God's will," says the Rev. Ernest Risley, 59, Pennsylvania-born rector of St. John's for 29 years. Since his installation, he has refused to admit Negroes to worship-except for servants attending a family wedding or funeral-on the ground that those who show up at the door want to make a political point rather than pray...
...Henry Adams," a three-volume work published by the Harvard University Press and written by Ernest Samuels, chairman of the department of English at Northwestern University, received the prize for biography. This is the second consecutive year that the University Press has been the publisher of the Pulitzer Prize winning biography. Jones, teaching this spring at Stanford University, said last night that he was surprised and "quite thrilled" by the announcement of the award...
...Honorable Judge Juanita Kidd Stout [April 16] must be the greatest Philadelphian since Benjamin Franklin, doing more to advance her race than any person since Booker T. Washington. Everybody should have a mother like hers. ERNEST L. MCLAUGHLIN Union...
...ERNEST DUDLEY CHASE Cape Cod, Mass...