Word: finches
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...article of February 9, entitled "Color-Blind Populism," J. Wyatt Emmerich seems to applaud everything Mississippi Governor Cliff Finch has done, and sees him as some sort of redeemer for the state. According to him, Finch has wiped out racism and become the hero of the people. He has stood up against the "independent and covetous" legislature and united the poor blacks and whites into a brotherhood with political clout...
...native Mississippian, and my views of our governor are quite different. Somehow I cannot believe that racism as strong as Mississippi's brand in the early '60s can be erased in a decade, and it is especially hard to credit Finch with any such development...
...detector tests to employees of the State Department as a means of finding security leaks). Haldeman now regrets that he did not challenge Nixon more "frontally" to check his dark impulses. But he also notes wryly that other Nixon associates who had done so, including HEW Secretary Robert Finch and Communications Director Herbert Klein, quickly lost influence at the White House...
...When Finch mounts the speakers platform, the populist ring in his voice is as clear as a bed. He first recounts his poor childhood on his daddy's farm and eulogizes the honesty and integrity of hard work. Then he urges all the "working men and women" of Mississippi to unite to fight for more and better-paying jobs and to help create a "better, fairer" Mississippi for all. The elocution is egregious, but the 'underlying egalitarian message of his orations is obvious...
...appearance of a man like Finch on the horizon of Southern politics marks an important shift in emphasis from status to class concerns in the South, or at least Mississippi. The poor Mississippi whites rallying behind Finch are opposing poor blacks less as a competing status group and are fusing with them to form a new class alliance. This development has profound implications in light of the fact that Finch and his cohorts are in the process of creating an imposing and powerful political machine. Finch has fired great numbers of high-ranking state officials and replaced them with...