Word: handpicked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Georgia, for example, Governor Lester Maddox, a Wallace supporter, sat down with State Party Chairman James Gray to handpick the 64 delegates to the Democratic National Convention. "What it boils down to," says Democratic Congressional Candidate Charles Weltner, "is a weird perversion of the one-man, one-vote doctrine wherein one man has one vote, and that man is Lester Maddox." John Howett, an Emory University professor, and Businessman Richard Marsh filed suit charging that they are "thwarted from participation in the democratic process at its place of quintessence...
...anyone not familiar with the vaguely apathetic consensus which keeps the Harvard system running smoothly, the HPC must seem a strange breed of student government. Masters handpick 14 students, and the dean takes the students' case to the Faculty. Former chairman Trosper, commenting on the educational liberalism of some professors says, "students have to run pretty hard to keep up with some of the Faculty members...