Word: fergusons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...made their prophet's own speeches seem restrained by comparison. In New York City's Harlem, nearly 600 people packed an ultramodern public school building to celebrate a program attended by Malcolm's widow. Also on hand: Writers James Baldwin and LeRoi Jones, and Herman B. Ferguson, a former New York school official who faces conspiracy charges in a plot to murder moderate Negroes. Baldwin capped the program by calling the U.S. "the Fourth
Reich," and Ferguson urged Negroes to get guns for self-defense during next summer's "hunting season...
...Government may be able to handle the financial hazards of auto insurance. But how? In 1869, the Supreme Court ruled that "insurance is not commerce," thus exempting it from federal antitrust laws and congressional regulation of interstate commerce. In 1945, after the court had reversed itself, the McCarran-Ferguson Act put all insurance under state supervision. But many Congressmen now believe that the states are flunking the auto-insurance part of their job. A Senate subcommittee has called for a "root and branch" investigation of the entire industry. President Johnson echoed the request in his State of the Union message...
...difference between Cornell and every team Harvard has played to date is defense. If Captain Skip Stanowski (the only senior on Cornell's squad!) is not the best collegiate defenseman in the country, it would be because his partner, junior Bruce Pattison, is. And sophomore Dwayne Ferguson is not that far behind...
...Texas' Ma Ferguson is probably Maddox's closest competitor. In two years in office (1925-27), she gave more than 3,000 prisoners their freedom...