Word: thetford
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...Come Out, Nigger." As the trial began, Montgomery's firm, plain-spoken Circuit Judge Eugene Carter looked out at Martin Luther King, surrounded by eight lawyers and backed by some 150 Negro spectators, many of them wearing cloth crosses with the words, "Father, forgive them." Prosecutor William Thetford produced evidence that the Montgomery Improvement Association had disbursed about $30,000 for boycott purposes; e.g., drivers in the boycott's 200-car motor pool were paid up to $24 a week...
That was politically courageous." At Thetford (Tom Paine's birthplace), Morrison took off on big business, monopolies, and the impending start of commercial...
...Vermonter-by-adoption, a church-state issue, however small, is like a hot scent to a coon hound. When Lawyer Paul Blanshard-whose bestselling American Freedom and Catholic Power launched him on a career of Catholic-needling-learned that the children in his own town of Thetford were getting a weekly half-hour of nonsectarian religious instruction in the classroom, he promptly went into action. Blanshard formally asked Education Commissioner A. John Holden Jr. to notify all Vermont's schools that "the teaching of religion in public schools as part of the regular schedule of instruction" was unlawful...
...connection with the Festival of Britain, the Borough of Thetford will be celebrating Thomas Paine's connection with this ancient town, in the first week of this coming June, with the performance of a play about him, the recitation of some of his work by famous American and British film stars, and the formation of a permanent Thomas Paine Museum and Library...
...could send us. We would insure and take every care of any objects of value that our American friends would loan us and naturally we would welcome all American visitors to Paine's birthplace, which still stands and is marked by a plaque erected by American soldiers stationed near Thetford during the last war. Mrs. E. Watling, Mayor