Word: m
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...LANDRUM-GRIFFIN BILL, jointly sponsored by Michigan Republican Robert P. Griffin and Georgia Democrat Phillip M. Landrum. More restrictive than the other bills, it imposed severe limitations on picketing and secondary boycotts, ordered labor leaders to respect rank-and-file rights under pain of jail sentences, extended state-court jurisdiction in labor disputes. The bill was backed by House Republicans and Southern conservatives, and got the nod of President Eisenhower...
...guinea pig by the Communist-Jewish integrators to sample the political sentiment of the South for a most distasteful candidate, John Kennedy?" Patterson, caught in a web he had helped spin, retorted a bit helplessly. "Kennedy is a friend," he said, "and so far as I know, I'm not being used as a guinea pig by anybody." As for the schools, he returned to his old, pre-gubernatorial stumping grounds. Said he: "No Alabama school will be integrated unless they pass over my body...
...point of indifference. "I don't care if I win this election or not," he drawled. "I've got $2,000,000 worth of property here; I've got a thousand house lots to sell; and if I don't win, I'm going to concentrate on getting them sold and making that fortune I'm after...
When the returns were in, Tallent was off the council-and so was the three-man anti-Tallent majority. Aware that a new poker parlor was beginning to pay off, Cabazon chose Tallent's followers. "Yes sir," beamed Tallent, celebrating with gambler friends, "you can say I'm perfectly satisfied...
...lunged reserve for the good ones. "The booing is not very nice, but it doesn't upset me," says Rocky, whose sincerity still startles his teammates. "I never booed anyone in my life, but as long as they pay, they're entitled to do it. I'm trying to do the best...