Word: balloters
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...Department has been the leading filer in federal courts of amicus briefs aimed at social changes-from trustbusting to school desegregation. Since the N.A.A.C.P. began leading the way in 1909, more and more minority groups have also found in court a chance for expression that eludes them at the ballot box. In 1945, the American Jewish Congress started a legal arm that has since filed scores of amicus briefs not only concerned with Jewish causes but also with the rights of Catholics, Negroes and Puerto Ricans. No amicus quite matches the 44-year-old American Civil Liberties Union, which, under...
Pressing his voter-registration drive, King arrived in Montgomery urging a "march on the ballot boxes," called on Negroes to join "by the thousands" in a demonstration of "peaceful good will." Far from resisting, city officials fell all over themselves in their hurry to help out. Police all but urged upon King a permit to parade the five blocks to the county courthouse from the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, where King was pastor when he first made a national name for himself as leader of a bus boycott (TIME cover...
Apparently Eliot House failed to vote because the HCUA ran out of ballot forms. Council Representative Elliott S. Topkins '65 said last night that when the went to the HCUA office in PBH at 11 a.m. yesterday to pick up ballots for Eliot House, he found the HCUA office closed, and a PBH secretary told him to return...
Best Friends. Two weeks ago, declaring himself pained by the disarray in the party, Kennedy proposed that the leadership issue be taken up by the legislators in a secret ballot; voting in secret, they would presumably be free of their various overlords' control and break the deadlock. Wagner was pressured into accepting the plan publicly, and even signed a statement calling for such a vote. But when he thought it over, he realized that-secrecy or no secrecy-he simply didn't have the votes...
...order for 80 days of cooling-off, followed by a 22-day no-strike extension. When longshoremen rejected Gleason's plea to accept the contract and walked out, the union hurriedly launched something called "Operation Facts" in an effort to sell them on the contract before calling another ballot. Union officials obviously felt that most dockworkers did not know what they were rejecting. Gleason went on a radio program to answer questions phoned in by members, and the union mailed each worker a four-page pamphlet detailing the contract's benefits...