Word: mendel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...book by Galbraith, Who Needs the Democrats? published early this summer, in which Galbraith suggested that liberal Democrats allow the Republicans to organize the House of Representatives and name the committee chairmen there in order to break the power of conservative Democratic congressmen such as Rep. L. Mendel Rivers...
...book by Galbraith, Who Needs the Democrats? published early this summer, in which Galbraith suggested that liberal Democrats allow the Republicans to organize the House of Representatives and name the committee chairmen there in order to break the power of conservative Democratic congressmen such as Rep. L. Mendel Rivers...
...came to praise Rivers, but buried Vinson. Vice President Spiro Agnew was at his quippy best last week as he paid tribute to South Carolina's Democratic Representative L. Mendel Rivers, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee and new recipient of a Distinguished American Award. In a speech interrupted 14 times by laughter, the Vice President mentioned Rivers' honorary membership in the International College of Dentists. Said Agnew: "I told him, 'You're never going to practice dentistry on me.' That's all right.' he replied. 'I'm never going...
...bill he was putting up, claiming he wanted to equalize the franchise across the nation, was actually trying to destroy that which gave us the Stokeses, the black sheriffs, while at the same time defeating the Jim Clarks and throwing a scare into men like Herman Talmadge and Mendel Rivers. It is very evident that Nixon does not intend for us to be able to utilize the truth of the courts that we have used in the past...
...meditation, the antiwar newsletter OM induced unusual meditation among the military brass soon after it appeared 13 months ago. It was written for servicemen by a member of the armed forces, 26-year-old Seaman Apprentice Roger Priest. When Priest sent a " copy with a taunting note to L. Mendel Rivers, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, Rivers boiled off a note of his own to the Pentagon asking whether Priest had committed a "gross abuse of the constitutional right of free speech." Soon the seaman was ordered before a general court-martial...