Word: mistakenly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...diminished when Spiro Agnew followed up on a CBS interview with an accusation that the Senate had allowed itself to be taken in by "the worst snow job of any legislative body in history." More than two dozen Senators signed a letter charging that the President had "completely mistaken" the Senate's action and pledging that they would support a Southerner of Nixon's philosophical persuasion if he met "the high legal, judicial and ethical standards which we believe are required." Tennessee Democrat Albert Gore introduced a resolution accusing Nixon of an "assault on the integrity of the Senate." Agnew...
...almost any setting, blacks are still constantly mistaken for the help, or worse. Passing through the basement garage of his Chicago office building, one black journalist is often asked to park cars, even though he is wearing a business suit. When he putters around the yard of his house in suburban Scarsdale, a New York dentist is invariably asked by delivery men for the "madam." She's not at home? How about "the man of the house"? The "gardener" says, "Wait a minute," goes through the back door and emerges at the front, getting a little...
...frontiers of confrontation, it is tough to be a newsman in the U.S. these days. The reporter is spat upon by students, Maced by cops, subpoenaed by lawyers. It is tougher still to be a black newsman. On assignments, and sometimes in his own office, he is mistaken for a messenger boy, a janitor, an agitator. At press conferences, he will be the only reporter asked to establish his credentials. If he is a broadcast newsman, sources will look right through him and talk to his white cameraman or sound engineer...
...largest shipbuilding firm, the Aker Group. The operating heads of Starboat, however, turned out to be Israelis who had ordered several commercial ships from Siem and had persuaded him to help them. The tall blond officers who showed up in Cherbourg to take over the boats-and who were mistaken by some Frenchmen for Norwegians-were also Israelis. The Oslo address was just that-a post-office box and nothing more. Said Panama's consul general in France, Jorge Royo: "It was a beautiful piece of corporate legerdemain...
...Administration for failing to provide a coordinated program of loans and other help to would-be black entrepreneurs. Actually, the difficulty may be much more fundamental. Last week in Manhattan the nation's most prominent black economist contended that encouraging Negro-owned business in city ghettos is a mistaken strategy for promoting racial equality...