Word: harpers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...allow a change of procedure at the 1860 Democratic convention. At the beginning of 1860, 32 million "extras" stood behind the "odd stellar assortment" of political players in the sectional drama. And no moderate argument had "one-tenth the cumulative emotional impact" of John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry, which "extremists could not have managed better if they had written a script...
...July 9, 1905, 29 Negroes met secretly in Canada near Niagara Falls in a response to a letter from Dr. DuBois. The next year the "Niagara Movement" met at Harper's Ferry, and publicly commemorated John Brown. By 1910 this movement became the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. DuBois left his Atlanta position, where his views were becoming too radical, and moved to New York. There he became the chief propagandist for the NAACP, acting for 23 years as the editor of Crises...
...United States permanent representative in the United Nations. For the past three years he has dignified our foreign policy in that forum. Now Robert L. and Selma Schiffer have collected a volume of the Ambassador's speeches and have persuaded Mr. Stevenson, President Kennedy (in a preface), and publishers Harper and Row to collaborate in its publication. Looking Outward, as the volume is called, carries the subtitle "Years of Crisis at the United Nations." Actually, less than half of the book is devoted to Stevenson's U.N. speeches; but those speeches deserve some scrutiny. They demonstrate what happens...
...John D. Harper, president, Aluminum Co. of America...
...LEARNING TREE by Gordon Parks. 303 pages. Harper...