Word: harrington
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...part, they are those whom the welfare state never brushed, a residual minority tucked away in rural backwaters and urban ghettos: the Cumberland's dirt farmer, the Mississippi cotton chopper, the migrant farm worker in California's Imperial Valley, the illiterate Harlem dishwasher. They exist, as Michael Harrington wrote in The Other America, "beyond history, beyond progress, sunk in a paralyzing, maiming routine...
...Harrington said that he might try to introduce the bill again next year but noted that the failure of the Democratic House leadership to support him this year will not make the chance of passage next year any easier...
Technically the bill could still be introduced this year. But Harrington said that the margin of Monday's defeat makes it very improbably that he could get four-fifths of the House membership to suspend the rules to re-introduce the bill...
...Harrington said that the most convenient way to overturn the oath now, would be to get a decision of unconstitutionality from the Supreme Judicial Court...
...Harrington been successful the repeal bill would have been placed before the House for debate on its merits that afternoon...