Word: speaker
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...enter the race soon is Louise Day Hicks, the anti-integration city councillor who narrowly lost the election for Mayor of Boston in 1967. Other possibilities are former Senate President John E. Powers. State Senator George V. Kenneally, City Councillor John L. Saltonstall '38. and Edward J. McCormack. the Speaker's nephew...
McCormack has served as House Speaker since 1962 when he succeeded Sam Rayburn. Since then he has come under increasingly sharp fire from House liberals for his defense of the war in Vietnam and his conservative stance of defense spending...
Last Fall the Speaker's aide, Martin Sweig, was charged with attempting to influence the Securities and Exchange Commission in favor of a California firm with which he was associated. McCormack placed Sweig on a leave of absence without pay peading an investigation of the charges. The charges against his trusted aide reportedly weighed heavily on McCormack...
...third annual Senior Dinner last night in Palmer Dixon Tennis Courts turned into a food-throwing session shortly after people sat down at the tables. "I perceive that you people are drunk," main speaker Erich W. Segal'58. author of Love Story, said when he stood up to talk...
...Senior Class Committee, which plans Commencement, is trying to arrange for an anti-war student speaker, a moment of silence and armbands at the June 11 ceremony to protest President Nixon's Indochina policies...