Word: maddox
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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...
Atlanta's Herbert Jenkins, 61, the only policeman on the riot commission, is impatient with conventional attitudes. With no help from a state headed by racist Governor Lester Maddox, Jenkins keeps relative calm in one of the Deep South's fastest-growing cities. He hired the first Negro officers in 1948, an almost unheard-of step in the South at that time, and spoke up for Negroes long before riots made such talk politic. "If a police officer is so thin-skinned that he is afraid of being called a 'nigger lover' because he is doing...
Georgia's Governor Lester Maddox, 52, is a man of few words, his favorite one normally being the all-purpose expletive "Phooey!" On occasion, Maddox applies it personally to irksome political critics and statehouse correspondents ("Phooey on you, phooey on you, and phooey on you!"). Last week Atlanta Attorney James H. Moore and a band of reporters hatched up their revenge with something called a "Phooey-gram," a telegram sent directly to Maddox bearing nothing save the sender's name and one word-"Phooey." Already hundreds of Phooey-grams have been wired to the capitol, and Moore plans...
Georgia (43): When Governor Lester Maddox gets around to choosing, Humphrey can expect...
Some constitutional-law experts saw in the decision a new pragmatism, an emphasis on tangible results that can be read as a warning to many Northern de facto segregated schools. In any case, Georgia Governor Lester Maddox understood full well what the court's decision meant for the South. He ordered all flags on state property flown at half-mast, and in an official proclamation announced that it had been "another black and tragic Monday, when the United States Supreme Court again ruled in support of the demands of the Communist Party." The decision, he predicted with desperate hyperbole...