Word: manifestoes
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...behind closed doors several blocks away in Washington's Mayflower Hotel. Their purpose: to dedicate themselves to the proposition that Jack Kennedy's Roman Catholicism would by no means be forgotten as an election issue. At the close of their session, they issued a 2,000-word manifesto that more than any other statement thus far in the campaign served to make religion the most emotional issue of the 1960 election...
Candid Candidacy. After Lizzie Stanton's manifesto, the suffrage struggle raged on for half a century under the leadership of such doughty heroines as Amelia Bloomer and Susan B. Anthony. In 1869 the Wyoming territorial legislature passed a female suffrage bill, and in 1870 Louisa Ann Swain of Laramie put on a clean apron and became the first American woman ever to cast a vote in an election. Twenty years later, Congress threatened to block Wyoming's admission as a state because of the local suffrage law, and Wyoming's worried territorial delegate wired home for official...
...accusing Nixon of nothing less than treachery. Behind guarded hotel doors, the G.O.P. Platform Committee and all its subcommit tees foundered in a ragged dispute among conservatives, liberals and moderates. As moderates gritted their teeth and dug in, the platform was shaping up to something close to a conservative manifesto on defense and civil rights...
...please the party's liberals, most of them Stevensonians at heart, Kennedy saw to it that the party platform, largely the handiwork of Kennedy Man Chester Bowles, was a far-out liberal manifesto containing a tough civil rights plank that enraged the South. Then, ditching the liberals, Kennedy tried to placate the Southerners and give his ticket a conservative aura by picking Texas' Lyndon Johnson as his running mate...
...effort to boost student utilization of the common room facilities, Miss Cynthia Adams and James Murphy issued a manifesto listing the advantages of the facilities. The air-conditioned Grays rooms are open daily from 9 a.m. to 11 p.m. for study and quiet socializing. Free coffee on Sunday mornings--plus the New York Times--provides an additional attraction...