Word: speech
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Weld tells a story about giving a speech at his Law School class's commencement in 1969, when protestors descended on him and took away his microphone. "As I was lecturing them on the importance of reasoning sweetly together, they took away my microphone," Weld said. "So in that sense, since I was holding the microphone, I guess I was the symbol of what they were overtaking...
...times. Ed King--he's a working class boy, and promises that he'll cut property taxes and bring jobs to Massachusetts. King talks a hard line and people believe him. He never shows up on Thursday at the Park Plaza, where he is supposed to give a speech, but a copy of his prophecies...
...James Burke from the 9th District hobbles up to the podium and starts talking softly into the microphone. Nobody knows he's up there, or maybe they do, but the dull hum of conversation doesn't subside during Burke's impromptu endorsement speech for King. A real lock 'em up and shoot 'em speech--Burke tells the convention why King should be governor. "Imagine those people selling drugs to our kids in junior high school. We need a man who will deal with these people. Look at the murders--why just during the past week...What are we coming...
Around the corner from Burns lives another "cooperative family" of unrelated adults, including leftist political activist Frank Ackerman. In October 1976 at a packed meeting of the city's Board of Assessors, Ackerman denounced the board for using tax assessments as a political weapon. During Ackerman's speech, Howe interrupted opened, opened the tax books for Ackerman's neighborhood, and asked threateningly: "Mr. Ackerman, where did you say you lived...
After explaining the methods scientists used to determine the masses of the Earth, sun, Milky Way Galaxy and galactic clusters, Field summed his speech up by saying, "to put it very simply, ladies and gentlemen, I don't know what the mass of the universe...