Word: josephs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...JOSEPH HOFFMAN Livingston...
...Southern Justice" [April 15] is a responsible effort to explain a complicated problem. 1 was particularly interested in your discussion of segregated juries. One approach is to challenge them county by county in federal district courts. But this is slow, costly and painful. With Phillip Burton of California and Joseph Remick of New York, I have introduced a bill that would employ federal jury registrars and use a population sampling system to insure that juries represent a cross section. Whatever formula Congress adopts, essays like yours encourage enlightened debate...
After Mormon Prophet Joseph Smith Jr. was killed by an Illinois lynch mob in 1844, Brigham Young led 10,000 of his followers on the great westward trek to the land of Zion that became Utah. Not all of the new religionists went with him. Denouncing Young as a usurper, a little band of Smith's disciples stayed in the Midwest to form the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, which last week opened its biennial world conference at its dome-topped headquarters in Independence...
ACCION is older than the Peace Corps--by six months. It was founded in 1960 by Joseph Blatchford, who conceived the idea while on a goodwill tour of South America as the captain of the University of California tennis team. According to Blatchford, he felt the need to start a community development group after Vice President Nixon was attacked in his limousine by mobs in Caracas. Although ACCION has helped reverse the tide of militant anti-Americanism, it is possible that Nixon would be attacked again today if he showed his face in Caracas...
...possibility of tension between the different groups arose when Joseph Simeone, the restauran't owner, spoke out strongly against "demonstrators." If we have so-called demonstrators take over, we're going to accomplish nothing," he declared...