Word: elected
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...business. Nonetheless, the American Bar Association, mindful that the medical profession won little esteem by its high-powered resistance to medicare, has endorsed the project and pledged full cooperation. "In helping to carry out a program dedicated to the principle of equal justice for all," says A.B.A. President-elect Orison S. Marden, "we have nothing to lose and much to gain...
...want to direct a play on the Loeb mainstage, you apply to the Harvard Dramatic Club executive committee--a very odd bird indeed. The HDC does not elect the committee--the five-man group nominates its own new members, and only a vote of the club, by mail, against a nominee can defeat him. Before the creation of the Executive Committee last spring, elected officers voted on applications for shows; the club gave up the old structure when it was told (by the students who appointed themselves the executive committee) that the Loeb Faculty advisers would only deal with them...
...Democratic Party," he says, "is like asking Jews to join the Nazi Party." Carmichael's alternative is to organize independent parties at the county level, where Negroes have a registration majority or close to it, and then run third-party candidates in the general election. If successful, Carmichael's strategy could lead to a collection of all-Negro parties able to win only in counties with Negro majorities. - In Macon, one Alabama county where Negro voters outnumbered whites even before the 1965 Voting Rights Act, the Negro leadership based at Tuskegee Institute supports the notion of racial balance...
...beneath a purple canopy in a makeshift church on Port-of-Spain's outskirts, the visitor watched impassively as incense-swinging priests murmured prayers and the high priest read a long eulogy. Thus last week did Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia, Lion of Judah, King of Kings and Elect of God, begin a week's visit to the three tiny Negro countries of Trinidad-Tobago, Jamaica and Haiti...
...Chance to Bask. What in heaven's name was the Elect of God doing in the Caribbean, 7,500 miles from his own kingdom? Family ties, of a sort. The people of the three countries, most of whose ancestors came from Africa, share a sense of brotherhood and a deep feeling for African rulers, especially for an African king such as Selassie. They also share a similar history of colonialism, mixed populations and economic problems. Since they gained their independence in 1962, both Trinidad-Tobago and Jamaica have seen their economies slow down and unemployment rise. As for Haiti...