Word: commonwealth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Backed by all the 19 Commonwealth governments, Whitehall has repeatedly refused to grant the self-governing col ony full independence until its 224,000 whites agree to a "peaceful transition to majority African rule" by its 3,700,000 blacks...
...NAACP leader was in a position to be tough with Bellotti. He knew that the next morning--yesterday--at Negro churches across the Commonwealth--worshippers would find 60,000 pamphlets with Canon Breeden on the cover and his endorsement of Volpe inside...
...hundred students marched along Commonwealth Ave. from rallying points at Kenmore Square and M.I.T., but a third line of march from the Dudley St. MBTA Station in Roxbury never materialized...
...crudity of political appeals has been reduced, and it is significant that the comeback try in 1962 of Francis "Sweepstakes" Kelley, an old-guard ward heeler Democrat running for Attorney General was defeated decisively by Edward Brooke, a Republican. Brooke, who has now joined that select circle of the Commonwealth's politicians who are regarded as incorruptible, is regarded as a pretty good bet for reelection despite the Johnson landslide...
There will probably never be a return to the days of a century ago when the dominant Republicans could offer a ticket so ignorant of ethnic feeling and geographical distribution, but the Commonwealth, one hopes, will tire of its simple pleasures of sensational disclosures of corruption and endless indictments, and of voting for the end of a candidate's name. However, one suspects it wouldn't have it any other...