Word: seymour
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Just as the whole venture seemed on the verg of collapse, eight members of a Black students organization the fundamentalist Christian Seymour Society announced that they were beginning a one week symbolic fast (by eating only fruit), and invited the original fasters to join them. They stressed that the purpose of their protest was not to strong arm the University, but to redirect attention from the hunger strike itself to the moral issues involved in divestiture...
...failing to set a standard of maximum dust concentrations in grain elevators to avoid spontaneous explosions, blames OMB for the delay. In fact, all but three of 22 new safety rules proposed by OSHA have been blocked by the budget agency. "OMB has no technical knowledge," contends Thomas Seymour, OSHA's deputy director of safety standards. "They get their slant from contacts in industry...
Included in the day's activities was a half-hour stopover at the Harvard Club for a sparsely attended fundraiser aimed at raising money for Operation Big Vote, a national registration drive. The event was sponsored by the Seymour Society a campus Black organization that is involved in the effort this summer...
...short speech, Washington said that it is essential to involve "the little people" in the political process, and urged the crowd of Seymour Society members and King supporters to use any means possible to register Blacks...
Silva said that the Seymour Society will help host Chicago Mayor Harold Washington, who is visiting Boston this Sunday...