Word: thems
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The Senate was, in effect, stampeded by an amendment proposed by Senator Albert Gore, who faces a tough election battle next year. By raising personal exemptions from $600 per person to $800, the Gore amendment would reduce taxes by 61% for a family of four earning $5,000 a year...
The Administration shared the blame for misjudging the political appeal of the Gore amendment. Illinois Republican Senator Charles Percy had proposed a compromise, raising exemptions more gradually and with far less inflationary effect. But he failed to win the support of the Administration. When the Senate spurned Percy's...
Me and [Stokely] Carmichael can't fill all them camps. They must be planning on taking somebody else.
"There must've been six or seven of them firing," said Sergeant Daniel Groth, leader of the raid. "I asked everyone to lay down their ammunition and throw up their hands. A voice came from the back and said, 'Shoot it out,' and with this, they resumed...
State's Attorney Edward V. Hanrahan defended the raids as necessary "because of the viciousness of the Black Panther Party." But Francis Andrews, a lawyer for the Panthers, charged that Hampton had been "assassinated" by the police. Pictures indicated that Hampton had been shot in bed; the Panthers claimed...