Word: alford
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...campaign caught Hays by surprise; in last July's primary he handily defeated a segregationist opponent, seemed sure of a ninth term. But then Dr. Dale Alford, 42, a Little Rock ophthalmologist and school-board member, announced against him as "Your Democratic Write-in." Public Service Commissioner and onetime Faubus Executive Secretary Claude Carpenter Jr. took over Alford's campaign. And Governor Faubus made discreet phone calls on behalf of Alford...
...station openly campaigned for a Negro candidate for the state legislature. The station's manager "would have been lynched ten years ago" for similar activities, Mrs. Alford asserted...
...broadcasting "trivial" affairs in a simple manner "so that Southern people can understand," Mrs. Alford concluded, much can be done to "approach the problems that face the South...
...present, Mrs. Alford is a special student at Harvard. She is studying sociology, with particular emphasis on the theory of communications...
Stephen F. Barker of Virginia and G. E. Lane Owen of Oxford "will help to fill the place in the department vacated when Professor Willard Quine left for a year's leave of absence in California," Raphael Demos, Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity explained...