Word: branches
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...early '60s, only 5.5% of the county's 5,000 eligible blacks were registered to vote. Meanwhile, because of a failure to purge voting lists, there were more white registered voters than there were white adults in the county. But then came the Voting Rights Act. William Branch, a local high school teacher who had been fired because of his political activities, and Thomas Gilmore, one of his former pupils, began a registration drive with help from national civil rights groups that would change the balance of power in Greene County...
...move to the left side of the aisle. He recalls: "It seemed like the whole church moved to the left." Within three years, however, thanks to the watchful eyes of supervising federal officials, almost 80% of the county's eligible blacks were registered. In the 1968 elections, Branch offered white political bosses a compromise: although blacks then had 60% of the vote, they would run a combined slate with whites, splitting the available offices fifty-fifty. A white probate judge had a simpler solution: he refused to put the black names on the ballot...
...mask put a gun to Virgil's head and forced him into a white van crudely painted and taped to look like a Mountain Bell telephone service truck. Four gunmen warned Virgil to cooperate or they would shoot his wife. Grainger came, then David Harris, branch operations supervisor. The gunmen needed both to unlock the vault. Less than 20 minutes later the thieves had driven away with $3.3 million in cash, which the FBI believes is the biggest bank heist in U.S. history...
...brick and stucco bank branch on East Broadway in Tucson has only four tellers' windows. But it is the Tucson cash center for the First National Bank of Arizona, the state's second largest bank. Nearby branches holding more cash than their prescribed limits send the surplus there, and any enterprising robber could have learned the branch's role...
...most sophisticated objection came from Attorney General John Ashcroft, who asked the Missouri Supreme Court to block last week's hearing. His plea: the separation of powers doctrine forbids one branch from summoning trusted officials of another. He failed, but the high court may agree to examine and rule on the plan's legality after Kinder actually assigns cases. "I researched the books," says the judge, "and I cannot find a thing that says I can't do what I'm doing." His tactic has attracted calls from other judges who may follow his example...