Word: lynching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...distiller from Gumville, he has voted frequently for Lyndon Johnson's Great Society programs. His constituents were not unsympathetic 18 months ago when he proposed that the U.S. "flatten Hanoi and let world opinion go fly a kite." In 1948 he cried that Harry Truman's anti-lynching bill would "lynch the Constitution," and as late as 1956 was defining N.A.A.C.P as "the National Association for the Advancement of Communist Propaganda...
...N.Y.S.E., several brokerage firms have begun taking direct action to cool the speculative fervor. E. F. Hutton & Co. announced that it will forbid its salesmen to solicit orders to buy stocks selling for less than $5 a share and will allow them no commission on such orders. Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, the nation's largest securities concern, said it plans to increase restrictions on margin accounts...
...Israel's security. In New York, Arab Spokesman M. T. Mehdi talked darkly of the "frustration of many Arabs with American politicians who have sold the Arab people of Palestine to the Zionist Jewish voters." That suggested a motive, but District Attorney Evelle Younger and State Attorney General Thomas Lynch wanted to avoid any such discussion until the trial. Thus they were aghast, and said so, when Mayor Yorty went before a news conference to divulge what he described as the contents of Sirhan's private notebooks, found in the Sirhan home...
Entranced by Tomorrow. "Investors are looking for the Xeroxes of tomorrow," explains Raymond Kiernan, vice president for over-the-counter trading at Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith. As a result, much of the new-issue surge involves computer soft ware and leasing companies, whose prospects for future growth entrance many buyers. Last month Advanced Computer Techniques Corp. soared from $7.50 to $29 a share the day it was issued. Underwriters are still gasping over the performance of Educational Computer Corp., a manufacturer of teaching devices. From an offering price of $7.50 on March 7, the company's stock...
Observations and Reflections (of Hester Lynch Piozzi) Made in the Course of a Journey Through France, Italy and Germany, Herbert Barrows...