Word: blocs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bluff country boy took to the backwoods to support Burns's city-boy opponent, Miami Mayor Robert King High, 42. Still trying to undercut Kelly in the outback, Burns then raised the race issue, warning that High would deliver the state into the hands of the "Negro bloc." He urged Florida to "follow the example of Alabama" in nominating a segregationist. Second mistake...
...problem in the construction of a major new library is finding a site. A building on the present site of Weld Hall has reportedly been suggested. The other possibilities are thought to include the bloc on Massachusetts Ave, directly across from Widener and several areas in the Yard...
...emotional and possibly persuasive argument to many Negroes-yet it could only lead to even greater isolation and bitterness for the Negro in the South. For if the Alabama primary proved nothing else, it demonstrated the futility of minority-bloc voting that only coalesces whites into a far stronger bloc of their...
...Administration viewed the bill as a pragmatic token of encouragement to the increasingly self-assertive, outward-looking nations within the once monolithic Communist bloc. And while Methodist Mills airily dismissed the need for such a gesture, a dramatic "independence" speech by Rumanian Boss Nicolae Ceausescu pointedly underlined the urgency behind a scheduled fence-mending mission to Bucharest by Soviet Leader Leonid Brezhnev (see THE WORLD...
Instead, following the controversial U.S. example, Callaghan set up machinery for "voluntary" curbs on British investment in the developed countries of the sterling bloc-Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Ireland and South Africa. He confirmed a 21% tax on gambling, effective Oct. 24, a tax on casinos starting Oct. 1, and a widely anticipated increase in corporate income taxes, from 35% to 40%. Britain, said Callaghan, will also ask West Germany to absorb the $224 million-a-year cost of keeping British troops there...