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Dates: during 1950-1959
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¶ Call a convention to overhaul the state's cumbersome constitution, a move that Long's critics (while admitting the need for constitutional revision) see as Earl's gambit to change the constitution so that he can succeed himself.
The site of the Capricorn Africa Society's first convention was proof of the difficulties they face. In order to ensure that its 150 delegates could talk, eat and live together, the Capricorn Society took over the site of an abandoned British hotel on the lake, hundreds of miles...
The convention's chief work was the approval of a "Capricorn contract between the races," which would replace racial loyalties with African patriotism. Since it had already gone through eleven drafts, the resolution passed largely without dissent. Some of its provisions: 1) common citizenship in each territory; 2) single...
Back home in Cumberland, Maine's cigar-chomping ex-Republican Governor Horace Hildreth, now U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan, amiably tried to bulldoze a baby elephant, flown to the U.S. as a gift from some of Hildreth's Pakistani admirers. If Amateur Mahout Hildreth can polish up by August...
¶ The Evangelical Lutheran Church (membership 1,000,000) voted at its convention in Minneapolis to join the World Council of Churches, thus removing the last barrier to merger with two other Lutheran bodies, the American Lutheran Church (862,000 members) and the United Evangelical Lutheran Church (57,000 members...