Word: cowger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Republicans reinvoked an old slogan: "It's time for a change." As it happened, it worked. Last week, over the opposition of the Louisville Courier-Journal and despite a lopsided Democratic registration superiority, the voters in Kentucky's largest city (pop. 390,639) elected Republican William O. Cowger, 39, as mayor, his first political office, and gave the G.O.P. a sweep of the board of aldermen...
Labor leaders were impressed by Cowger's flat condemnation of right-to-work proposals. Negroes (some 15,000 of whom voted) disliked the Democratic regime's opposition to forced integration of eating places, were influenced by the rumor that the Ku Klux Klan and the White Citizens Council were supporting the Democratic candidate, William S. Milburn...