Word: democrats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What happens to New York's liberal Mayor John Lindsay in November, says Jordan, will be a weathervane for blacks. If he loses to Democrat Mario Procaccino, a hard-line candidate, black hopes for political participation will sag. Blacks in Newark plan to run a candidate for mayor next year against big odds. The election of right-wing white Anthony Imperiale would be a traumatic setback. Blacks are fielding Richard Austin for mayor this year in Detroit, where almost 40% of the registered voters are black. In Atlanta, nine blacks are running for alderman and at least three will...
...Five Percenters" of the Truman Administration, the "Kickback Congressmen" of the late '40s and early '50s, Senator Joseph McCarthy, FCC Commissioner Richard Mack and Congressman Adam Clayton Powell. It was also Anderson who persuaded office workers for Senator Thomas Dodd to turn over the Connecticut Democrat's incriminating files. Of the more than 100 Pearson-Anderson columns devoted to the Dodd affair, all but two were written by the junior partner...
...Trouble. The Administration's stand will unquestionably be popular with businessmen, but it guarantees political trouble. Several members of the Senate Finance Committee pounced on Kennedy's proposals. "You've taken $1.7 billion from the average forgotten American and given it to the corporations," complained Indiana Democrat Vance Hartke. Though some of the Administration's proposals-notably its defense of investment incentives-may make good economic sense, many of them are likely to be doomed by their lack of popular appeal...
...came to bring advanced social ideas of love, charity and democracy to a slave-society world. He was immune to the human death of crucifixion, and "ascended into heaven" after promising to come back. The idea of Christ as a cosmonaut did not bother Izvestia, but Christ as a democrat...
...President is also expected to name Robert Wells, president and general manager of radio station KIUL in Garden City, Kans., to fill the FCC seat being vacated by Commissioner James J. Wadsworth. Because both new appointees will replace Republicans, Nixon presumably will have to wait until next summer, when Democrat Kenneth Cox's term expires, before he gains control of the seven-member commission...