Word: tuckers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...allay your anxieties at once. Being very rich is mostly what raucous people call a gas. C. Wright Mills, one of the egghead sociologists, was near the mark when he said: "If the rich are not happy, it is because none of us is happy." Sophie Tucker got it right the first time. "I've been rich and I've been poor," she said. "Rich is better...
...Permit from Sod. "Listen, America," said Sterling Tucker, the march's coordinator, in an emotional address before the giant, brooding figure of Lincoln. "Hear our anguished cries. We are admitting that we are poor. But we are also giving warning. We will not remain poor. We will not remain depressed, repressed or oppressed." Added Whitney Young Jr., executive director of the National Urban League: "This may be the last march which is non violent and which brings blacks and whites together. The nation and the Congress must listen to us now before it is too late-before the prophets...
...Ambler, Pa. During a six-week festival of music and dance, the emphasis will he on chamber music, solo recitals, and the smaller-scale symphonic works of the masters-from Beethoven to Bartók performed by such artists as the ubiquitous Van Cliburn, Soprano Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Tenor Richard Tucker, Cellist Leonard Rose, Clarinetist Benny Goodman, and Anshel Brusilow's Chamber Symphony of Philadelphia. The Pennsylvania Ballet will take over the Greek-style amphitheater on four consecutive Thursdays beginning June 27. Ella Fitzgerald (July 12, 13) and Duke Ellington (July 25) will add a touch of jazz...
...Sterling Tucker, director of the Washington Urban League, agreed yesterday to succeed Bayard Rustin as the leader of the Poor People's Campaign's June 19 solidarity march. Tucker hopes to bring hundreds of thousands of people to Washington to demonstrate in support of the poor...
...Hamilton Banker Sir Henry Tucker, the United Bermudians won on the strength of their solid, four-year record for expanding the island's tourism and prosperity and lowering its color bars-both socially and politically (TIME, May 10). In last week's elections, seven of the party's 30 winning candidates were black, and Tucker is purposefully broadening party membership so that the proportion of black members will match the island's Negro majority (63%). Without any other strong issue, the opposition Progressive Labor Party resorted to racism, campaigning on a platform of independence from white...