Word: josiah
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...rally followed a weekend conference on abortion and featured four scheduled speakers. In a surprise appearance, Josiah Spaulding, Republican candidate for the U. S. Senate, defended "a woman's right to control her own body...
Edward Kennedy was unopposed for his party's senatorial nomination. The principal interest in the Senate primary was focused on the identity of Kennedy's Republican opponent. G.O.P. voters chose Josiah Spaulding, the former Republican state chairman, over John McCarthy, onetime state commissioner of administration and finance. McCarthy had promised a no-holds-barred race that would not shy away from attacking Kennedy's conduct after the Chappaquiddick accident last summer. Spaulding says that he will campaign on Kennedy's Senate record, asserting that Kennedy has not kept his 1962 campaign promise to "do more...
...made models of machines, clocks and guns, a tiny spinning wheel and a toy peep show. James Watt, the perfecter of the steam engine, John Wilkinson, the iron manufacturer who developed the cast-iron bridge, Sir Richard Arkwright, the wealthy cotton manufacturer who invented the spinning jenny, and Josiah Wedgwood, whose name is still synonymous with fine pottery, all lived near...
...George Murphy's office. The temptation, he admitted, had been great. "Can you imagine what it would mean," he mused, "to have this state represented by a birthright member of the yellow peril?" In Boston, the surviving Kennedy brother, Teddy, was challenged by former State Republican Committee Chairman Josiah A. Spaulding, who announced his candidacy for Senator from Massachusetts...
...smugly every time some university president reacts to student unrest by calling in the police, and the police deal with the situation no-holds-barred. I have assured myself complacently that Harvard is too sensible, too enlightened to react like that. But yesterday I discovered that the spirit of Josiah Quincy is not dead by any means. Even a history-conscious institution like Harvard, with so much history to learn from, ends up behaving as vindictively as the most callow, raw land-grant college in the country...