Word: electioneering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The actions took place in Washington, in Arkansas and in Virginia, but they pulsated across the U.S.-and across the world-as the school-integration problem once again moved into the spotlight. In the spotlight, too, were the school-integration drama's leading characters, two of them subjects of...
Failing to win election (by 394,000 shares) at the May annual meeting, Phillips tried, by a series of serious charges, to bar the Pennsy's directors from taking their seats. He accused the Pennsy of violating Securities and Exchange Commission and state regulations by refusing to deliver stockholder...
Harlem's handsome, husky Congressman Adam Clayton Powell Jr. talks more and does less about civil rights than anyone on Capitol Hill. In his 14 congressional years, he numbers his flamingly civil-righteous words in the hundreds of thousands, his headlines in the thousands-and his actual legislative achievements...
Said one Westerner: "We were made aware that in large parts of Asia and Africa, Western missionary work is now regarded, even by many Asian and African Christians, as mere propaganda for 'imperialism' and 'capitalism.' " Many Asians complained that only three of the 33 members of...
If You Can't Beat 'Em . . . In High Springs, Fla., ex-Mayor Juanita Easterlin, who last year campaigned unsuccessfully for re-election by charging that enforcement of the state liquor laws was lax in her area, was arrested as the ringleader of a big-time moonshining operation.