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Muste and Bayard
In 1941, he, Bayard Rustin, and A. J. Muste proposed a march on Washington to protest racial discrimination in war industries and to propose the desegregation of the American Armed forces.
In 1949, Lester Granger was appointed Executive Secretary and led the NUL's effort to support the March on Washington proposed by A. Phillip Randolph, Bayard Rustin and A. J. Muste to protest racial discrimination in defense work and the Armed Forces.
Muste, Albert Bigelow, Bayard Rustin and George Willoughby.
Muste, Dwight Macdonald, Ralph T. Templin, Roy Kepler, Cecil Hinshaw, Milton Mayer, Bayard Rustin and Horace Champney.

Muste and .
* 1885 – A. J. Muste, Dutch pacifist and activist ( d. 1967 )
* A. J. Muste
As the means so the end ...” A contemporary quote sometimes attributed to Gandhi, but also to A. J. Muste, sums it up: ' There is no way to peace ; peace is the way.
Muste and Bertrand Russell, admired and praised Kahn's work, because they felt it presented a strong case for full disarmament by suggesting that nuclear war was all but unavoidable.
Muste, forming the Workers Party of the United States.
* A. J. Muste
" Muste ( 1885 – 1967 ) was a Dutch-born American clergyman and political activist.
Muste is best remembered for his work in the labor movement, pacifist movement, and the US civil rights movement.
Muste was born January 8, 1885 in the small port city of Zierikzee, located in the Southwestern province of Zeeland in the Netherlands.
Muste's father, Martin Muste, was a coachman who drove for a family that was part of Zeeland's hereditary nobility.
With his economic prospects limited in Holland, Martin Muste decided to follow four of his wife Adriana's brothers to emigration in America, making the cross-Atlantic trip as Third Class passengers in January 1891.
Muste later recalled of his fellow Reformed Dutch Church members that they were " all Republicans and would no more have voted for a Democrat than turned horse thief.
Muste attended Hope College in the not-accidentally-named Holland, Michigan, located just west of Grand Rapids on the coast of Lake Michigan.
At Hope College Muste was class valedictorian, captain of the school's basketball team, and played second base for the baseball squad.
Following graduation, Muste taught Latin and Greek for the 1905-06 academic year at Northwestern Classical Academy ( now Northwestern College ) in Orange City, Iowa.

Robert and Pickus
Arnoni ( philosopher, writer, political activist ); Edward Keating ( publisher, Ramparts Magazine ); Felix Greene ( author and film producer ); Isadore Zifferstein ( psychologist ); Stanley Scheinbaum ( Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions ); Paul Jacobs ( journalist and anti-nuclear activist ); Hal Draper ( Marxist writer and a socialist activist ); Levi Laud ( Progressive Labor Movement ); Si Casady ( California Democratic Council ); George Clark ( British Committee on Nuclear Disarmament ); Robert Pickus ( Turn Toward Peace ); Bob Parris and Bob Moses ( Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee ); Jack Barnes ( National Chair of the Young Socialist Alliance ); Mario Savio ( Free Speech Movement ); Paul Potter ( Students for a Democratic Society ); and Mike Meyerson ( national head of the Du Bois Clubs of America ).

Robert and Bayard
There, they also hosted receptions on Sunday evenings which drew notable figures including P. T. Barnum, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, John Greenleaf Whittier, Horace Greeley, Bayard Taylor and his wife, Richard and Elizabeth Stoddard, Robert Dale Owen, Oliver Johnson, Mary E. Dodge, Mrs. Croly, Mrs. Victor, Edwin H. Chapin, Henry M. Field, Charles F. Deems, Samuel Bowles, Thomas B. Aldrich, Anna E. Dickinson, George Ripley, Madame Le Vert, Henry Wilson, Justin McCarthy ; in short, all the noted contemporary names in the different departments of literature and art might fairly be added to the list.
William Bayard Cutting's grandfather, Robert Cutting, had been Robert Fulton's partner in the ferry from Brooklyn to New York ; they married sisters who were daughters of Walter Livingston.
With Martha he had six children: John Stevens ( b. July 1856 ), grandfather of Millicent Fenwick ; Edwin Augustus Stevens Jr. ( b. March 14, 1858 ); Caroline Bayard Stevens ( b. November 21, 1859 ), who married Archibald Alexander and then H. Otto Wittpenn ; Robert Livingston Stevens ( b. August 26, 1864 ); Charles Albert Stevens ( b. December 14, 1865 ); and Richard Stevens ( b. May 1868 ).
Attempting to point the fraternity in the right direction, Ms. Mattie J. Bayard ( née Orr ) took a volume of Robert Browning's poems from a shelf, turned to A Death in the Desert, reading what would become the motto.
The letters were addressed to his parents, his brothers Elisha and Melzar, his uncle Granville Whittlesey, and to his friends George McMurtry, J. Bayard Pruyn, Robert Forsyth Little and Herman Livingston, Jr. Also in his cabin was found a note to the captain of the Toloa leaving instructions for the disposition of the baggage left in his stateroom.

Robert and Rustin
At the war's end, married Gerry Stowell, by whom he had three children-Richard, Robert and Rustin Weaver.

Robert and .
He opened the myth book again and there ( along the margin next to Robert Graves' imaginative interpretation of the creation of the Dactyls from Rhea's fingertips ) were the names of four Munich bars and Meredith Wilder's address.
Jack walked off alone out the road in the searing midday sun, past Robert Allen's three-room, tarpapered house, toward the field where the other boys were playing ball, thinking of what he would do in order to make Miss Langford have him stay in after school -- because this was the day he had decided when he thought he saw the look in her eyes.
Such writers as William Faulkner and Robert Penn Warren have led the field of somewhat less important writers in a sort of post-bellum renaissance.
He is too deeply steeped in William Faulkner and Robert Penn Warren.
But Robert Rauschenberg, the neo-dadaist artist, has collaborated with several of them.
Robert Penn Warren puts it this way in `` Brother To Dragons '': `` The recognition of complicity is the beginning of innocence '', where innocence, I think, means about the same thing as redemption.
Another controversy typical of the war between the Englishman and the Examiner centered on Robert ( later Viscount ) Molesworth, a Whig leader in Ireland and a member of the Irish Privy Council.
the Honorable Robert Wagner, Sr., at that time a justice of the New York Supreme Court, was on the reception committee.
and Robert Sheckley's The Status Civilization ( 1960 ) describes a world which, frightened by the powers of destruction science has given it, becomes static and conformist.
If, the editors sometimes, dozed and printed pretentious, New, York-mind, dross, they, also printed, Malraux,, Silone,, Chiaromonte,, Gide, Bellow,, Robert Lowell, Francis Fergusson, Mary McCarthy, Delmore Schwartz, Mailer, Elizabeth Hardwick, Eleanor Clark,, and a host of, other good writers.
He was interested in Robert Musil's The Man Without Qualities.
Mayor Robert F. Wagner must, as his opponents demand, assume responsibility for his performance in office.
But watching Mrs. Cyril Ring, Berniece Dalton Janssen, Mrs. Robert Jarvis, Mrs. Walter Adams order low-calorie seafood, no bread, I could see the Ziegfeld Girls of 1920 were determined to be glamorous grandmothers of 1961.
Newest on the list are John Ciardi, W. D. Snodgrass, I. A. Richards, Oscar Williams, Robert Hillyer, John Hall Wheelock, Stephen Vincent Benet, Edwin Muir, John Peal Bishop and Maxwell Bodenheim.
-- Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara has asked Congress for authority and funds to build fallout shelters costing about 200 million dollars.
-- Your July 26 editorial regarding the position of Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy on prospective tax relief for DuPont stockholders is based on an erroneous statement of fact.
As a result, your criticism of Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy and the Department of Justice was inaccurate, unwarranted and unfair.
Perhaps there is more truth than we are wont to admit in the conviction of that ornament of Tarheelia, Robert Ruark's grandfather, who was persuaded that the great curse of the modern world is `` all this gallivantin' ''.
Laudably enough, it is offering classics and off-beat imports, but last week only one U.S. original was on the boards, Robert D. Hock's stunning Civil War work, Borak.
Their national leader, Robert Bolivar DePugh of Norborne, Mo., says the Minutemen believe that guerrilla tactics are best suited to defeat the Red onslaught.
Sir Robert Watson-Watt's `` rebuttal '' of Sir Charles Snow's Godkin Lectures is marred throughout by too forceful a desire to defend Lindemann and apparently himself from Sir Charles' supposed falsehoods while stating those `` falsehoods '' in an unclear incoherent argument.
Loneliness tore through him like a physical pain whenever he thought of Peter Robert, Nerien, Nicholas Cop, Martin Bucer, and even the compromising Louis Du Tillet.
An occasional traveler from Italy brought news of Peter Robert, who was now distributing his Bible among the Waldensian peasants.
Her mother wrote Kate of her grief at the death of Kate's baby and at Jonathan's decision to go with the South `` And, dear Kate '', she wrote, `` poor Dr. Breckenridge's son Robert is now organizing a militia company to go South, to his good father's sorrow.
Indeed, if pressed, we would say what the late Robert Henri, American painter, said to a pupil, `` Anything will do for a subject: it's what you do with it that counts ''.

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