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...past few months, Jackson has been crisscrossing the country conducting voter-registration revival meetings to bring blacks into the political process. He will cry: "We need 10,000 blacks running for office from Virginia around to Texas?county clerks, supervisors, sheriffs, judges, legislators, Governors???Just run! Run! Run!" His audience will interrupt: Run, Jesse, run! Run, Jesse, run! "When you run, the masses register...
...strong voice in, though not control of, the country's credit policies. The Secretary of the Treasury and the Comptroller of the Currency are dropped as ex officio members of the Board, thus breaking that political tie. The name of the Federal Reserve Board is changed to Board of Governors???seven men, not more than four of whom belong to the same party, serving for 14 years and removable only for cause. The President will designate one as chairman for a four-year term. Furthermore, the Reserve Banks are forbidden to purchase securities direct from the Treasury...
...York is the most populous State (12,588,000), most wealthy ($40,708,000,000), most costly to run ($310,777,000). It holds the economic heart of the nation. Its citizens pay one-third of the total Federal income tax. Three of its 44 Governors???Van Buren, Cleveland, Roosevelt?have proceeded to the nation's No. 1 job. Four others?Seymour, Tilden, Hughes, Smith?ran for the Presidency...
...conferees included all the great Provincial Governors???hitherto semiautonomous "War Lords" in their own districts?and was chairmanned by the Nationalist conqueror of all China, spry, slender little Marshal Chiang Kai-shek who is now President...
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