Word: extremist
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Davis had played with the racists too long to move suddenly without them, and the effort to get a bill foundered in the closing hours of the special session. Cried Extremist Wellborn Jack, of Shreveport: "They're not gonna put you in contempt. They're not gonna have the guts to do it." But Jimmie Davis knew something about Bobby Kennedy's guts. At week's end, with the legislature on its way home, he found some extra money in a special fund and earmarked it to pay the New Orleans teachers...
...European mobs shouted for "Algérie Française" and tangled with security forces. Then, in their frustrated rage, the Europeans went too far. Squads of toughs plunged into the Moslem quarters. They beat up passers-by and forced shopkeepers to join the general strike ordered by the extremist Front de l'Algérie Française...
...every indignity just to stay alive. The advocates of a French Algeria argued that the casbah really wanted association with France but was intimidated into silence for fear of the F.L.N. Attentisme (wait-and-see-ism) virtually disappeared last week in the explosive espousal of the F.L.N. The extremist Front de l'Algérie Française had claimed the support of 500,000 Moslems-if they ever existed, they have now vanished into thin air. The wife of extremist General Jacques Massu operated a social center in the casbah for Moslem orphans, and worked industriously...
Despite the tension in Algeria, the nationwide referendum date De Gaulle has set for January 8 remains unchanged: Frenchmen would be called upon to vote oui or non to his policies. De Gaulle brusquely showed he would not tolerate extremist European defiance in Algiers, incidentally making clear that he blamed the Europeans, not the Moslems, for instigating the riots. Forty civil servants in Algeria, who had quit work in answer to the strike call of the extremist Front de l' Algérie Française, were sacked from their jobs and the Front itself ordered dissolved. The same...
...style or spirit of Franklin Roosevelt. Kennedy feels that the narrowness of his election victory forbids any violent veering in the nation's course, and that, if he received a mandate at all, it was for moderation. He is even relieved by being free to shrug off Democratic extremist elements. The Kennedy Administration plans to present only five or six major pieces of legislation-all dealing with domestic matters and specifically including a minimum-wage increase and medical care for the aged-to the opening Congress...