Word: ohio
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...crucial vote came on Wednesday of last week. There was a single hour of debate. Pressure came from the White House for a vote against the bill, and from the N.A.A.C.P. and the A.F.L.-C.l.O. for it. During the debate, the G.O.P.'s respected William Mc-Culloch of Ohio warned the House that a "no" vote would mean that "the most effective civil rights law in our nation's history will be emasculated.'' Celler was now as strongly in favor of the package as he had been opposed to the 18-year-old vote provision standing...
...roll over and play dead." Republicans who had been engaging in a muted filibuster to block any substantive vote detected growing support for the President and permitted a vote. But on the roll call, the Administration lost some Republicans it had hoped to land, including William Saxbe of Ohio and Oregon's Robert Packwood. When the Byrd amendment was declared lost, 52 to 47, some spectators cheered...
...OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY Robert Finch, LL.D., Counsellor to the President, former Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare...
Born in Ada, Ohio. Rollo Reese May studied psychoanalysis under Alfred Adler, who was one of Freud's apostates. He also studied art in Poland and Greece and, after returning from Europe in the 1930s, enrolled in New York's Union Theological Seminary .-"to ask questions, ultimate questions about human beings-not to be a preacher." He did serve briefly in a Congregational parish in Verona, NJ. The years he spent as a tuberculosis patient brought this varied background into focus. There, face to face with death, he discovered what he took to be its true relation...
...love of nature verged on the mystical; more than once, he confided in the journal he kept for more than 50 years, he fled the woods in terror of mysterious presences. "I have never learned to talk and have only listened to the trees," he wrote. Born in Ashtabula. Ohio, in 1893, he grew up in Salem, where he and his sister Louise often romped in Post's Woods hunting spring flowers, a pastime he later recalled in White Violets and Coal Mine. Even then he liked to sketch, and in high school recorded all the local wildflowers. After...