Word: proclaimed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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John Sears, lately a candidate for the City's top office, and now sheriff of Middlesex County, made a ceremonial appearance at last night's Pudding opening to proclaim March 5 "Hasty Pudding Day," allegedly by order of the Governor...
...reception stepped dissident Democratic candidate Senator Eugene McCarthy, 51. The Minnesotan, who had spent the week slogging through wintry New Hampshire, found a more congenial welcome at the Manhattan town house of Socialite Gloria Vanderbilt Cooper. About 200 friendly writers, artists and jet-setters crowded around to hear him proclaim that "it is necessary now to admit to a kind of complete failure in Viet Nam." Poet Robert Lowell responded on the spot by announcing that he has formed a brand-new National Committee of Arts and Letters for McCarthy for President...
...department store has introduced a credit plan for "responsible young adults" between 18 and 21. A few banks are thinking young too. Anxious to build up its junior clientele, Arizona's Valley National Bank has started offering its credit card to qualified teen-agers with ads that proclaim: "It's what is, baby...
...spectators were treated to views unencumbered by pillars, thanks to the structure's 407-ft., rafter-free span that is suspended by taut cables resembling the spokes of a bicycle wheel. With the Forum's time already booked for 200 days in 1968, Cooke could finally relax, proclaim his new sports palace "a timeless place, something a man can be proud...
...Mills may well be irked with the President for another reason as well. Last fall, when Johnson requested his help in passing a bill to suspend a 7% investment credit, Mills asked for a favor in return. "I want you to issue a proclamation proclaiming 'Duck Day' in Stuttgart, Arkansas," he drawled. At first speechless, Johnson finally replied incredulously: "You want me to proclaim 'Duck Day'?' "Yes," insisted Mills. "In Stuttgart, Arkansas." The President said he would. The investment credit was suspended, thanks to Mills's help. But somehow, Duck Day in Stuttgart never...