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In a 1970 speech to the Empire Club of Canada, Former Governor General Roland Michener summed up the contemporary arguments against the Crown: From its opponents, he said, came the claims that monarchies are unfashionable, republicsother than those with oppressive regimesoffer more freedom, people are given greater dignity from choosing their head of state, the monarchy is foreign and incompatible with Canada's multicultural society, and that there should be change for the sake of change alone.
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On Tuesday, August 4, 1970, the 91st Congress of the United States acknowledged the Glorification of St Herman of Alaska with a speech in the Senate, and his biography was formally entered into the Congressional Record, Vol.
* During the war between the United States and North Vietnam, Vice President Spiro Agnew accused newspapers of anti-American bias, and in a famous speech delivered in San Diego in 1970, called anti-war protesters " the nattering nabobs of negativism.
Burton showed a subtle flair for comedy in a 1970 guest appearance with Elizabeth Taylor on the sitcom Here's Lucy, where he recited, in a plumber's uniform, a haunting excerpt of a speech from Shakespeare's Richard II.
Aware of the Egyptian people's strong political and emotional attachment to Nasser's memory, and the ideals of the Revolution, Sadat declared in his inauguration speech before the National Assembly on 7 October 1970, " I have come to you along the path of Gamal Abdel Nasser and I believe that your nomination of me to assume the responsibility of the Presidency is a nomination for me to continue the path of Nasser ".
Echoing Senator Roman Hruska's famous 1970 speech in defense of Harrold Carswell, Coats said to CNN regarding the nomination: " If a great intellectual powerhouse is a qualification to be a member of the court and represent the American people and the wishes of the American people and to interpret the Constitution, then I think we have a court so skewed on the intellectual side that we may not be getting representation of America as a whole.
At the Conservative Party conference in October 1970, he made a notable speech commending the government for attempting to curb trade union power, and called for state aid to strikers ' families to be reduced or stopped altogether, a policy which the Thatcher government pursued over a decade later.
Comments in Pál Turán's 1970 speech on the award of a Fields Medal to Alan Baker about theory-building and problem-solving were a reply from the traditionalist camp at the next opportunity, Grothendieck having received the previous Fields Medal in absentia in 1966.
In 1970, Moni Bordeianu emigrated to the United States, and, for a brief period of time the band suspended its activity, also due to total censorship that followed a protesting speech held by Bordeianu in his last concert.
He attended his first peace demonstration soon after the Kent State shootings in May 1970, and gave his first speech against the war at Levittown Memorial High School in Levittown, Long Island, New York that same spring.
In a 1970 speech to the Royal College of Nursing she argued: " However good the cause ... the horrific effects on men and terrain of modern warfare as seen on the television screen could well sap the will of a nation to safeguard its own freedom, let alone resist the forces of evil abroad.
He gave his maiden speech in the Address-in-Reply debate on 7 April 1970.
D ' Angelo who served from 1970 to 1974 while he also served as a speech writer and adviser to then Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller.
* " National Liberation and Culture ", a speech at Syracuse University in 1970
In his last speech to his colleagues in the US House of Representatives on December 7, 1970, delivered just before he departed for Birmingham, Alabama to have heart surgery, he stated, " While we debate the question of maintaining our military capability, the Soviet Union forges ahead.
From Paul Mellon's speech at the Gimcrack Dinner 1970.
* Allende first speech to Chilean parliament following the 1970 election
A statute of worker ’ s rights that was drafted and pushed into enactment in 1970 by the Socialist labour minister Giacomo Brodolini, greatly strengthened the authority of the trade unions in the factories, outlawed dismissal without just cause, guaranteed freedom of assembly and speech on the shop floor, forbade employers to keep records of the union or political affiliations of their workers, and prohibited hiring except through the state employment office.
In 1970, the group disrupted a speech by William Kunstler, resulting in the Chicago Seven's lawyer drenching Fromm with a pitcher of water.
Hruska is best remembered in American political history for a 1970 speech he made to the Senate urging them to confirm the nomination of G. Harrold Carswell to the Supreme Court.
After the Soviet Union army took control over Czechoslovakia ( August 21, 1968 ) he protested against this in a speech at the United Nations ( where he used the word occupation )-this caused his dismissal from high offices and even from the communist party ( 1970 ).
The text of the speech has been published since at least 1970.
McWhirter was a 1970 graduate of Depauw University who received a degree in speech.
In 1970, Rarick gave a speech in support of Ian Smith's white minority-rule government in the former Rhodesia and denounced the U. S. policy of denying recognition to Smith's government.
1970 and Empire
* Officer of the Order of the British Empire: 1970
It was initially known as the British Empire Games and was renamed to the British Empire and Commonwealth Games in 1954 and the British Commonwealth Games in 1970, before finally gaining its current title for the 1978 edition.
The name changed to British Empire and Commonwealth Games in 1954, to British Commonwealth Games in 1970 and assumed the current name of the Commonwealth Games in 1978.
The Empire of Kush to the south of Egypt is known from at least 1970 BC, but this name has also been associated by some with the Kassites who inhabited the Zagros area of Mesopotamia, the Sumerian city of Kish.
" Have You Seen the Saucers " marked the beginning of a science-fiction theme that Kantner explored in Blows Against the Empire, his first solo album, released in 1970, and with many of his songs in the 70s and 80s.
It was released in October 1970 under the title Blows Against The Empire, and credited to " Paul Kantner / Jefferson Starship ".
Dench was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire ( OBE ) in 1970 and advanced as a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire ( DBE ) of the order in 1988.
He travelled to Japan in 1966 where he wrote Empire of Signs ( published in 1970 ), a meditation on Japanese culture ’ s contentment in the absence of a search for a transcendental signifier.
Empire to Welfare State ( 1970 )
The Empire of the Steppes Rutgers University Press, 1970.
Laver was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire ( MBE ) in the Queen's Birthday Honours of 1970.
OKSEN TARIEl LORIS-MELIKOV ( 1895 – 1970 ) General-Mayor of Russian Empire, the full gentleman of Saint George crosses award.
Plowright was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire ( CBE ) in the 1970 Queen's New Year Honours and was promoted to Dame Commander ( DBE ) in the 2004 Queen's New Year Honours.
In 1970 he was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire for services to music.
Roosa's honors include the NASA Distinguished Service Medal ; the Johnson Space Center Superior Achievement Award ( 1970 ); the Air Force Command Pilot Astronaut Wings ; the Air Force Distinguished Service Medal ; the Arnold Air Society's John F. Kennedy Award ( 1971 ); the City of New York Gold Medal ( 1971 ); the American Astronautical Society's Flight Achievement Award ( 1971 ); the Order of Tehad ( 1973 ); and the Order of the Central African Empire ( 1973 ).
* 1970: Officer of the Order of the British Empire ( OBE )
In 1970, she was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire ( OBE ).
In 1970, the flooding of Lake Koocanusa necessitated the realignment of 60 miles of track and the construction of Flathead Tunnel forcing the Empire Builder to drop service to Eureka, Montana.
* 1970: Queen's Birthday Honours List: named a Member of the Order of the British Empire ( MBE ).
He was appointed Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire ( GBE ) in the 1970 New Year Honours.
His wife, Bessie Ellen Bottomley, JP, was named a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1970 " or public and social services.
He was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 1970 New Year Honours.
He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire ( CBE ) in 1970.
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