Word: formerly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hulan Jack, state assemblyman and former Manhattan borough president...
...Andrew Mulrain, former commissioner of sanitation...
...Bernard Relin, former chairman of the board of Rheingold Breweries...
...Paul Screvane, former deputy mayor of New York City...
...that led the way: it was the students who spread the M-day idea. But the original Moratorium concept came in fact from Jerome Grossman, 52, a Massachusetts envelope manufacturer long active in the peace movement. He talked the idea over with Sam Brown Jr., 26, an lowan and former Harvard Divinity School student whom he knew from the McCarthy campaign. Brown persuaded Grossman that the businessman's first idea?a general strike on the traditional European model that would seek to stop the wheels of commerce entirely?was probably too audacious to succeed. Brown's instinct was that...