Word: appealed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Adlai Stevenson has only a small, personal following among Democrats. In many parts of the U.S., he draws crowds that are undemonstrative; his looks, his voice, his personality, according to New York Times reporters roving the Middle West, generally have little appeal. ("Eisenhower is ordinary-like," said a gasoline-station attendant in Oceana County, Mich., "and so is Kefauver.") Expounding on "The Case for the Democrats" in last week's Saturday Evening Post, House Speaker Sam Rayburn managed to write 4,500 words of a 4,700-word article before mentioning the candidate's name. Stevenson...
...Senate passed three supplementary bills to keep segregation as safe as possible: ¶The "pupil placement" bill sets up a special board, appointed by the governor, to classify and assign all public-school pupils. If a parent becomes dissatisfied with the board's decision, he will have to appeal to the governor, and, if still dissatisfied, start legal proceedings that would probably take at least two years to get to the U.S. Supreme Court. But what if the bill were then declared unconstitutional? In that case Virginia would simply go on to the next bill on its list...
...Bradley, admission was vital. The I.L.A. was in a jam. Now before the NLRB is an appeal from its archrival, the A.F.L.-C.I.O.-backed International Brotherhood of Longshoremen, for an election to determine collective bargaining jurisdiction in the Port of New York. Twice the I.L.A. had scraped through such elections by slim margins-the last time (in 1954) by 263 (out of 18,551) votes...
...hope that integration would proceed smoothly if everyone (and especially the NAACP) kept quiet was blighted, however, when the opening of school resurrected the issue with renewed intensity at Mansfield, Clay, and Sturgis. Since that time each of the candidates has come out with his own appeal to the integrity of the South...
...Canal--but an independent body, similar to this country's Interstate Commerce Commission, would be chartered under the United Nations to fix maximum rates and minimum standards of operation. This body would act also as a board of arbitration for any complaints--with the General Assembly as the final appeal group...