Word: edward
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Martin Luther King called the three elections a "one-two-three punch against backlash and bigotry." Massachusetts' Senator Edward Brooke, who made his own racial breakthrough last year, said that "It showed the American Negro what he can achieve through lawful means." And A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany pronounced that "American voters have rejected racism as a political issue...
...evolution. Neither of the new mayors fits the traditional mold of the ghetto politician, seeking and getting solely Negro support and campaigning principally on racial issues in the style of Adam Clayton Powell. Nor are they products of the Negro middle class such as HEW Secretary Robert Weaver and Edward Brooke, who as public personages seem so nearly white that the Negro workingman is hard put to identify with them...
...week, the helmet directive was more gesture than substance, but it was the kind of gesture that had been sadly missing around city hall. A more pragmatic innovation is Stokes's plan to fully integrate police precinct squads regardless of the neighborhoods they serve. He tried to hire Edward Logue to head Cleveland's urban-renewal program, but Logue declined to leave Boston, instead will serve Stokes on a consulting basis. Meanwhile, Stokes is talent-hunting for a full-time urban-renewal director and other top officials; and he is drawing plans to produce more jobs...
...role of academicians in the White campaign was played down during the election. Unsuccessful candidate Louise Day Hicks charged that her opponent's campaign was being run by intellectuals and big-name politicians such as Edward M. Kennedy...
...those accustomed to Massachusetts politicians, the decision of this dovish David to challenge the presidential Goliath seems a strange one indeed. He lacks the jaunty grin of an Edward M. Kennedy; he does not pound the table with his first like a Francis X. Bellotti; and his throat does not issue the pious platitudes of a John A. Volpe...