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Limited Franchise. The voting rights bill did not spring entirely from spur-of-the-moment shock at the outrages in Selma. Back in November, the President had ordered White House aides and Justice Department attorneys to begin designing a powerful and unprecedented measure to assure Negro voting rights. Well aware...
The notion that the Constitution absolutely assures every citizen the right to vote is quite wrong. "At the time the Constitution was framed," explains University of Chicago Law Professor Philip Kurland, "it provided for only a limited franchise." That franchise in 1789 went almost exclusively to white males; most Negroes...
The picture that emerged at the State House yesterday from connecting the dots between the numerous incidents cited was one of systematic institutionalized repression of attempts by Mississippi Negroes to gain the franchise.
$10,000 for a Race Track? The latest scandal was the forced resignation two weeks ago of Pearson's Minister Without Portfolio Yvon Dupuis. The youngest (38) man in the Cabinet, Dupuis was also one of the best campaigners and was extremely well connected to Quebec party bosses. Now...
The man behind Lonrho's restless expansion is Roland ("Tiny") Rowland, 46, a 180-lb. six-footer who began his career as a porter in a London railway station, emigrated to Southern Rhodesia in 1948 and built a fortune from a Mercedes franchise and mineral speculation. In 1961 he...