Word: josephe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wake of Robert F. Kennedy's assassination, public revulsion gave Congress its cue. Maryland's Democratic Senator Joseph Tydings, the sponsor of a tough bill that would require licenses for the purchase and possession of firearms and ammunition, and registration of the weapons, was deluged with 10,000 letters supporting his stand. San Francisco as well as neighboring Marin County passed a registration ordinance. In Chicago, a voluntary turn-in campaign has prompted the surrender of 75 guns a day. Florida's Jordan Marsh and Burdine's chains quit selling toy guns, while Sears, Roebuck...
...mail-order sales of rifles and shotguns, proposed a permit system for gun owners and announced sponsorship of a long-range study of behavioral patterns in relation to the use of firearms. In San Francisco, 300 citizens voluntarily turned in weapons after an appeal from Mayor Joseph Alioto, who said that the city might "have them melted down and made into a sculpture honoring Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King." In Chicago, gun owners voluntarily delivered 100 weapons to police stations...
...week's end, Ted and Rose Kennedy taped a five-minute television message of thanks to the nation for its condolences. As Patriarch Joseph Kennedy sat speechless beside them in a wheelchair on the lawn of the Hyannisport compound, his youngest and last surviving son said: "It has been the people themselves, with outstretched hands of sympathy and strength, that have most touched the hearts of the members of our family. It is the ones who could give the least who have given the most...
...their master plan for the ideal state. Marx defined the family as "antiquated" and predicted that it would vanish along with capitalism; the Bolshevik coup in 1917 thus brought casual mating and divorce, and a brief fling at free love. The man who stopped it was that formidable patriarch Joseph Stalin, who proclaimed that the family was "the basic cell of society" and put himself on the side of old-fashioned peasant virtue. But even Stalin was not above endorsing a bit of pragmatic promiscuity when the times dictated. In 1944, with the population decimated by war, Stalin wanted...
Enraged and horrified by the assassination of Robert Kennedy, Philadelphia Inquirer Columnist Joseph McGinniss wrote: "You do not live in a country any more but in a cesspool. It does not happen anywhere the way it happens here. The country does not work any more. All that money and power have produced has been a bunch of people so filled with fear and hate that when a man tries to tell them they must do more for other men, instead of listening they shoot him in the head...