Word: eleven
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Republican Vice-Presidential Nominee Bill Miller campaigned through eleven states, 14 cities and towns, and 15 speeches last week, snapping constantly at the heels of and around Lyndon Johnson and hinting frequently at dark and untrustworthy goings...
...students living in Putnam House (69 Brattle St.) will cook their own breakfast with food supplied by the college but will eat lunch and dinner in the dormitories of South House. The eleven freshmen in 46 Concord Street will take all three meals in Barnard Hall, and the eleven residents of 103 Walker Street will eat in Cabot Hall...
...Negroes, Frank Smith, an articulate and rather embittered young student, and Ella Baker, a portly veteran of the Southern Negro movement, traveled from state to state for the Party all summer, speaking to Democratic caucuses and committees wherever possible. Between them they secured support pledges of varying intensity from eleven states. But hurried schedules and limited energies permitted the two only to scratch the surface...
...this fails, he will issue a minority report recommending that both delegations be seated and the vote split. He will take this compromise before the convention for a floor fight. He needs eleven Credentials Committee members to sign a minority report and eight state delegations to support a roll-call vote...
Rauh tells the delegation he is "confident of having eleven or more people to sign a minority report if one is necessary." He concludes with an appeal to the press to demand that the Credentials Committee hearings be moved from is present room--too small to allow news coverage--to the ballroom in Convention Hall. Rauh is trying to foil Johnson's efforts to smother the challenge...