Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...announced yesterday plans for a mass rally on Sunday at Memorial Church, for which they are "asking for and expecting to receive support from many sectors of the black community." OBU has invited national black leader Floyd McKissick and Fanny Lou Hamer of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party to speak at the rally...
...readers have heard about patriotism, battered children, truth, tradition, poverty, blindness, language and protest. The agencies report that the response has been abundant and heartwarming. Leo Burnett Co. Inc.'s ad on environment and pollution resulted in requests for 30,000 reprints. After urging the silent citizen to speak out, Dancer-Fitzgerald-Sample Inc. received a flood of congratulations, including one note allowing that "maybe Madison Avenue isn't all bad after all." The ad that has so far drawn the most active response was by Young & Rubicam (Oct. 24), which urged citizens to help construct play areas...
...delivered an inflammatory and obscene speech during San Francisco's Mobilization Day rally last month, and at one point had said: "We will kill Richard Nixon. We will kill any mother - that stands in the way of our freedom." Said Raymond Masai Hewitt, minister of education: "We speak in the rhetoric of the ghetto and we're not going to change it to suit anybody's Marquess of Queensberry rules." The police seem to feel just as violently about the Panthers...
Raftery was at Harvard yesterday to speak at the graduation exercises of the Trade Union Program at the Business School. He had heard earlier about the painters' helpers issue and refused to appear at the graduation unless a regular apprenticeship program was established. Raftery was advised of the present agreement at 5 p.m. last Friday afternoon...
...told me that she came from a long line of Rumanian fortune tellers, dating back thousands of years; Now, however, she and her family are all American citizens. I asked about her accent. "When you speak another language besides English," she told me, "you have a little accent...