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...John Alcorn & Family San Francisco
Eisenhower never knew the whole story of Sherman Adams. But when Meade Alcorn, the Republican national chairman, came to his office and said Republican leaders were demanding "the Adams mess" be cleaned up, Ike accepted the verdict. He told Alcorn to tell Adams he must...
This year he entrusted the leadership of the campaign in the third district to a variety of local leaders. In his home county, Jefferson, a twenty-one year old student from Alcorn A.M. was given control of the campaign. All the black candidates in Jefferson lost and Evers ran behind his 1968 totals in the Congressional race in Jefferson county...
After a white foreman shouted angrily about "goddam niggers" to Manuel Alcorn, a black truck driver, and ordered him fired, Alcorn complained of nausea and insomnia. He got his job back, but sued his employers for $110,000. The California court upheld his right to seek damages from a lower court on that basis. Wrote Justice Louis Burke: "Al though the slang epithet 'nigger' may once have been in common usage, along with such other racial characterizations as 'wop,' 'chink,' 'jap,' 'bohunk' or 'shanty Irish,' the former expression...
Coach Cullen was also pleased with the Cadets' George Alcorn at number one Harvard captain Larry Terrell won in three hard-fought games. 18-15, 15-10 15-11. "Considering that Terrell is the best collegiate player in the country. I was very happy with Alcorn's performance." Cullen said...