Word: mccormack
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Though hardly noticeable in the midday swirl of the city, the demonstrators marched in a tight circle in front of the McCormack Federal Building for an icy hour and a half...
Demonstrators arrested during Monday's protest yesterday accused officers assigned to the McCormack Federal Building in Boston of unnecessarily clubbing a juvenile taken into custody, causing him to bleed from the head. A spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's office in Boston acknowledged yesterday that there had been several allegations of illegal police brutality but refused to comment on them...
DIED. John W. McCormack, 88, "the fighting Irishman of South Boston" who rose to become Democratic Speaker of the House of Representatives and was first in line to the presidency after John F. Kennedy's death; in Dedham, Mass. His 42-year congressional career was capped by passage of the 1964 Civil Rights...
...McCormack was a colorful figure in Congress for a great many years." Archibald Cox '34, Loeb Professor of Law, said yesterday...
Following the assassination of former President John F. Kennedy '40. McCormack served for 13 months as both speaker and de facto vice-president under President Lyndon B. Johnson. "Though McCormack was overshadowed by Rayburn and Johnson, he was an effective...