Word: alford
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Raphael Demos, Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity, will deliver the third evening lecture in the Career Conference series tonight at 8 p.m. in the Adams House Dining Hall...
Speakers for the evening meetings, which start this Wednesday, include Dean Bundy, David Riesman '31, Henry Ford II Professor of Social Sciences, Raphael Demos, Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity, and John Kenneth Galbraith, professor of Economics...
...lose two Representatives after the 1960 census. Mills cannot risk being gerrymandered out of Congress by a legislature under the segregationist thumb of Governor Orval Faubus. Mills therefore has recently taken a strong segregationist position, this year masterminded the disputed House seating of Little Rock Segregationist Dale Alford, won respect for his political footwork, lost points for the speakership...
...Arkansas Fifth (Little Rock) District, where Segregationist Independent Dale Alford defeated respected eight-term Democrat Brooks Hays after a write-in campaign attacking Southern Baptist Convention President Hays's moderate stand on integration (TIME, Nov. 17). Protesting the outcome last week was not Hays but John F. Wells, publisher of the Arkansas Recorder, a Little Rock weekly and Hays's longtime friend-and longtime political critic. Charged Wells* in a well-documented complaint: 1) Alford write-in stickers were delivered to election officials along with ballots and ballot boxes; 2) contrary to law, the stickers...
Splitting along regional lines, the committee's two Republicans and Massachusetts Democrat Thomas O'Neill recommended that Alford's seat be denied him until the charges were investigated, and two Southern Democrats wrote a minority report protesting the seat denial but agreeing that "further investigation is warranted." The vote presaged a bitter fight between Southerners and Northern liberals over the Fifth District's seat when the House convenes next month...