Word: figureheaded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Inspite of his seemingly obvious role as a Negro figurehead at Harvard, Epps insists that he is not "Dean of Negro students," but that he remains interested in their activities "because I know the pain one goes through upon encountering new, integrated situations." One of the "hang-ups" of Negro students at Harvard is that they suspect all whites of being anti-Negro. It is difficult to learn, Epps explains, that this is not usually true...
...necessary," cried Kabaka Yekka Party Leader Daudi Ocheng. "Once the constitution is broken, the rule of the jungle takes over." Actually, whether there was to be any dying appeared to be up to the four-battalion army. So far, its loyalty seemed badly split between Obote and the figurehead chief of state, Sir Edward ("Freddy") Mutesa, 42, who is the Kabaka, hereditary ruler of Buganda kingdom, most powerful of Uganda's four regions...
...reduce Negro unemployment, it asked for establishment of job training and placement centers in all Negro neighborhoods, state legislation to force big employers to report how many Negroes they have on the payroll. >To meet persistent Negro charges of police oppression, it recommended strengthening the Los Angeles' figurehead Board of Police Commissioners and creation of an inspector general's office to investigate citizens' complaints, Even before the commission finished its report, Chairman McCone predicted that it would anger as many people as it pleased. It did. Civil rights leaders accused it of superficiality, said it skirted around...
...help, he said, because "I will not repudiate any support which comes to me on the basis of interest in peace." But from the start of the campaign it was plain that the Progressive leadership was interested solely in exploiting Wallace's popular appeal. They had a willing figurehead. As Wallace stormed across the land, condemning the Marshall Plan, aid to Greece and Turkey, and U.S. resistance to Soviet pressure on Berlin, he became Pravda's favorite American. Wallace won only 1,157,000 votes out of 49 million, trailed Harry Truman, Thomas Dewey and Strom Thurmond...
...Bella's old cronies proved more docile. Only two Cabinet ministers followed him into prison; the others eagerly joined Boumedienne. One former exile, Abdul Hafid Boussouf, returned to take a post in the Defense Ministry, and ex-Premier Ferhat Abbas might act as figurehead Premier of the new government...