Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...good friend drove me down to the local Board where we met some other demonstrators. We all passed out literature to my fellow travelers and I spoke a little about the right to free speech we had on the Army...
Others besides Sachs spoke heatedly on both sides of the discussion. Dartmouth professor Jonathan Mirsky, endorsing the resolution calling for immediate withdrawal said: "We must screw up our courage as Asian scholars to face ourselves. In the '50's older colleagues suffered. Now it's youth. We cannot fail them. They are showing us the way back...
Looking askance at the voting districts of Midland County, Texas, Justice Byron White spoke for a 5-to-3 majority. "The equal- protection clause," he said, "reaches the exercise of state power however manifested, whether exercised directly or through municipal subdivisions of the state. If voters residing in oversize districts are denied their constitutional right to participate in the election of state legislators, precisely the same kind of deprivation occurs when the members of a city council, school board, or county governing board are elected from districts of substantially unequal population...
...response to a question about the names of policemen he had consulted, DeGuglielmo said, "I spoke to the chief. I don't speak to subordinates...
...coffee cups were whisked away. Mrs. Belle Spafford, President of the Relief Society of the Jesus Christ of the Latter-Day Saints rose up on the dias to give the first speech--a history of the women's movement in the United States. She spoke with much intensity, very close to the microphone. 'The first women's group, an abolitionist group--they called themselves Females Against Slavery--met in Philadelphia during the 1830's. It was an outrage then that women should meet thus together for some political matter. Few attended the gatherings. Their first meeting," and here her voice...