Word: appealed
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What happened in Texas is only one detail of the unsung political phenomenon of 1956: the widespread realization that Richard Milhous Nixon is a prime national asset to the Republican Party, not only because of his political skill but also because of his genuine appeal to the U.S. electorate. By Nov. 6 the young (43) Vice President will have traveled 42,000 miles by airplane, train and car, will have made more than 150 campaign speeches in 36 states.* He has been a field strategist as well as a campaigner, firing back his analysis of what other G.O.P. campaigners...
...violating its state charter as a charitable and benevolent group by engaging in political activity, 3) failing to pay state franchise taxes. The court's injunction so sharply curbs the activities of N.A.A.C.P.'s 20,000 Texas members that N.A.A.C.P. Chief Counsel Thurgood Marshall, while planning his appeal, ruefully admitted': "We've closed up shop in Texas...
Smith's potential appeal has long been recognized by politicians, and he has been under pressure before to get into politics. The idea appealed to him. but the circumstances were never quite right for the move. Now, although he is in good health and is, in fact, the same age as St. Laurent when the Prime Minister entered politics in 1941, Smith is inclined to believe that he is too old to embark on a new career of rebuilding the Tory Party. But Smith has not yet said that he would refuse the nomination, and many Tories are hopeful...
Last week Mrs. Schoenheit, who has no Missouri teaching certificate, was brought into court, sentenced to ten days in jail and fined $5 for willfully refusing to enter her daughter in the public school. After three hours she surrendered, but once released, decided to appeal her case and keep Mary out of school until the circuit court takes action. Meanwhile, Missouri's other rebel also still had his daughter at home. Unlike Mrs. Schoenheit, William Cheney has a Missouri certificate to teach, and Missouri law requires only that a child receive the equivalent of a public-school education. Unless...
Aside from considerations of pride, aid for the moment would be impractical. Granted, mobs have called for help, but the appeal must come from Nagy or from any organized government which may happen to replace him. Otherwise, United States aid would amount to illegal interference in the internal affairs of another country and international opportunism of the most blatant sort...