Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This anti-Semitic Jewish representative of a splinter group of local Jewry is in no way qualified to pass judgment on the natural fears now possessing the overwhelming majority of Jews, who are proud of Israel...
...plan to reapportion its seats. At present, sparsely populated counties, with 12% of the people, mostly in the north, elect 20 of the 38 ,state senators. Collins was criticized for not "forcing" the legislators to go along by using his patronage power and his right to veto bills for local improvements. Instead, he continues to preach reapportionment as a necessity of tomorrow's Florida. Says Collins: "It takes a gradual shaping of public opinion to win the really big fights." Although he has not publicly said so. he would like another term. The state Supreme Court will have...
...helpful to take a little closer look at the numbers. We have all been somewhat bemused by the staggering figures about future college enrollments which are tossed around so freely and we tend to apply these statistics ever-simply to the consideration of Harvard's problems. National and local developments will not necessarily be identical in scope, however...
...would have ever been convicted. There has never been any precedent for the optimistic belief that a Mississippi jury would give White justice in a Negro murder. Most observers were skeptical about the possibilities of conviction, and, in any case, the men would never receive more than token sentences. Local police, as it turned out, soon found themselves unable to identify the body of the slain boy. (Mr. Halberstam's statement that the NAACP could have used "its own resources to pin down the identification" is both illogical and irrelevant...
...NAACP's "shot-gun slander," he continues, "produced the predictable result--the local citizens began to turn their condemnation from the murder of the Negro boy to the NAACP." But in spite of the irritation it knew it would arouse in the South, the NAACP continued to stir up the public, feeling that they had nothing to fear, since the Negro's situation could not get worse. The jury would not bring an effective conviction, the group felt, and a national awareness of the case would at least put Mississippi justice on public record...