Word: speaker
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...irritated Cuyahoga County Chairman Tim Hagan by inviting Cleveland Mayor Dennis Kucinich to the White House. The hotheaded young mayor has antagonized Hagan and other party leaders by refusing to endorse most of the local Democrats. Last week Hagan joined other Democrats at a Cleveland rally where the keynote speaker was Ted Kennedy. The gathering of some 5,000 roared their approval when Kennedy began his speech by endorsing Democratic Gubernatorial Candidate Dick Celeste and saying, "I didn't come to Ohio just because you have 25 electoral votes...
Special Aid to Cities. A program under which states and thousands of cities with high unemployment last year received $1.3 billion in extra federal funds for job-generating public works projects ran into trouble in the House and was allowed to die by Speaker Tip O'Neill. The cities could take consolation, however, in last-minute continuation of the CETA program, under which 725,000 public service jobs were funded this year at a cost of $11 billion. If Administration forecasts of a 5.7% unemployment rate next year are accurate, the program will provide about 660,000 jobs...
Senator Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D.-Mass.) and Speaker of the House Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr. (D.-Mass.) will also be present, the White House spokesman said...
...into the ceremony, and now they had announced a non-existent agreement. The protesters were understandably angry and frustrated (an increasingly common feeling among those who must deal with the administration), they had no assurance that the audience would stay after the ceremony to hear our speaker, no assurance that some last-minute change in the University's conception of this imaginary agreement would not prevent our speaker from being heard--and when Bok stepped up to deliver his address on "Excellence in Government" they reacted accordingly...
...large part to remarks by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.), our speaker was heard by most of the audience. And for this we are glad; our purpose is not simply to protest, but to get our message across to as many people as possible. But we still think it is important that the reprehensible manner in which University officials conducted themselves should be known to the entire community. These officials may charge that revealing the details of the negotiations constitutes "negotiating in bad faith;" this hardly needs a response. They may also charge that we are becoming...