Word: speaking
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When Massachusetts' Democratic Governor Foster Furcolo requested a chance to speak to General Electric workers at Lynn last month in defense of his embattled proposal to boost the state sales tax, they deluged him with 200 unfriendly questions, such as: "When are you going to forget your giveaway programs?" "Why don't you do something to stop the disgraceful, wasteful spending of the taxpayers' dollars...
...Thursday Afternoon and Evening Lectures, part of a series which continues at the same time each week. At 3 p.m., in Allston Burr Hall B, Robert C. Tucker, Professor of Government, University of Indiana, will lecture on "Education and Soviet Society." At 8:30 p.m., Louis Kronenberger will speak in Lowell Lecture (New Lecture) Hall on "The American Theatre Today...
Will the South support a Catholic nominee? On the heels of Alabama Governor John Patterson's recent endorsement of Jack Kennedy for 1960 came the first dark imprints, looming ominously for any Catholic candidate. The Alabama Baptist, noting that Patterson did not speak for a majority of Alabamans, pronounced Kennedy hopelessly dominated by the Catholic hierarchy. And the Methodist Christian Advocate, official mouthpiece of Alabama's Methodists, denounced Patterson, conceded that Kennedy was a good man but that "the people of Alabama ... do not intend to jeopardize their democratic liberties by opening the doors of the White House...
...days later able General Nasution summoned a rare press conference, admitted that he had not yet been able to speak to the President, but insisted confidently that in the next Cabinet "the army will have more control over security and economic affairs." At week's end, President Sukarno visibly reasserted his power by decreeing the end of the Constituent Assembly and seizing dictatorial powers...
...well-balanced and even-tempered book. Author Rovere (for the past eleven years Washington correspondent for The New Yorker) notes that "McCarthyism was a bipartisan doctrine." He blames not only some Republicans for tolerating Joe so long but some Democrats (notably Senators Paul Douglas and John Kennedy) for not speaking out against him. Rovere might have added that those who did speak out against McCarthy sometimes helped him by exaggerating his importance. To Rovere himself. McCarthy remains "in many ways the most gifted demagogue" in U.S. history, with a terribly sure "access to the dark places of the American mind...