Word: marches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Because of the new call for involvement, Pusey said that the old isolated scholars stance "is scorned as flimsy pretext for self-indulgence. It is demanded rather that he get down on the ground and join without equivocation in the march on poverty, racial injustice, and other social ills which...
...Great Debate about the League took place on March 19, 1919, between President Lowell '77 and Henry Cabot Lodge '71, Senator from Massachusetts. Over 100,000 people applied for tickets for the 2900 seats in Symphony Hall and the winners were chosen by lottery. Lodge offered five "constructive criticisms," the first of which was that the League "should be redrafted and put into language that everyone can understand...
Waiting for Jimmy. Just how long the new alliance will last depends largely on the Teamsters' president, James Riddle Hoffa. Convicted of jury tampering in 1964, Hoffa began serving an eight-year sentence in March 1967. He is eligible for parole in November but faces another five-year prison term for conviction on charges of fraud in handling union pension funds, which he is appealing. Hoffa is likely to resume his old job once he gets out. When he returns, no one expects that he and Reuther will be able to work together in harmony. They may not have...
...other side of the casualty ledger, some North Vietnamese may be skeptical of their government's war reports, which continually boast of inflicting outsized losses on the enemy. A letter, signed by "Many Readers," appeared in the March issue of Popular Current Events, a party periodical, asking: "If, since the war began, we have annihilated 1,500,000 of the enemy, including 500,000 Americans, why does the enemy still have more than 1,000,000 troops in South Viet Nam?" The editor's reply was strictly party-line-that the U.S. is a huge industrial country that...
...Northern Songs, founded in 1963 to handle the songwriting business of John Lennon and Paul McCartney, was the object of a takeover bid by Britain's Associated Television, producer of The Avengers. Associated bought up 35% of the stock in March and made a $23.5 million tender offer for the rest; the company now has just over 36% of the shares. Lennon and McCartney, each of whom owns 15% of the company, fought the takeover by calling for help from the other Beatles and making their own tender for 20% of the shares...