Word: elected
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...about the shootings other than the slightest notice of it. The Governor's name was never mentioned, and the impression was given that he was innocent as a babe of any responsibility for the act. I guess that Governor Hearnes figures if the people were stupid enough to elect him, they are stupid enough to believe that thousands of birds can be shotgunned on the mansion's lawn without his orders, or even his knowledge. I don't know how stupid a man can get, but when he can't tell a purple martin from...
Cleveland, whose population is only 35% Negro, in 1965 came within a hairsbreadth of becoming the first major U.S. city to elect a Negro mayor. It may still be the first. Currently, the leading contender in the Oct. 3 Democratic primary is Carl Stokes, a Negro state legislator who, running as an independent two years ago, fell short of winning the election from Incumbent Ralph Locher by only 2,143 votes...
cities where the majority of residents (63%) are Negro. * Washingtonians may not be able to elect their officials for years to come, but last week they won something that approaches self-government. By a vote of 244 to 160, the House accepted President Johnson's plan to revise a municipal charter that has been in effect since President Grant...
...student who had borrowed $4000 and who obtained a job paying, say $15,000 the year after he graduated might wish to avoid a 40 year commitment that would take a substantial portion of his income each year; he could elect to repay at once the entire $4000 plus six per cent interest...
Realistic Negroes have no hope for anything less than staunch segregationist Democrats in all the State's top posts. Only in the 12 counties where Negroes hold a substantial edge in voter regiistration do they have a chance to elect their own candidates or sympathetic whites. In the other elections, it is only a matter of which brand of segregation is most suitable...