Word: mayor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dictated the choice of candidates for public office. That is a role the present management has chosen to forgo. "By playing kingmaker," says Editor Thomas L. Boardman, 48, "we were weakening the role of the parties and the democratic process." So, by choice, the Press delayed its endorsement for mayor last year while Vail became chief supporter of the victorious Negro candidate, Carl Stokes...
...case of Midland, a member of the commissioners court was elected from each of four districts*, but the one who represented almost all of the city of Midland had many times as many constituents as the three rural representatives put together. As a Midland resident, Mayor Hank Avery objected, and filed suit. Since the commissioners were regarded as the general ruling body of the county by the Supreme Court majority, it had no hesitation in halting the rural overrepresentation...
...film crews to Manhattan's Carnegie Hall, where Duke Ellington was playing a benefit for a Mississippi Negro college. As it began, the producer announced the news and cameras caught the stunned and horror-stricken faces in the audience. From Cleveland, CBS carried a film of tear-streaked Mayor Carl Stokes Negro as his constituents sang America. No less eloquent was an interview with Ben Branch, a King aide who had been with him at the time of the assassination and who was still too be numbed to respond...
...commissioner, so righteous that as a cop on the beat he sent back the butcher's Christmas turkey. Richard Widmark is engaging as the detective who lives "on the arm"-accepting all "police discounts." The skillful, dramatic use of Manhattan-indoors and out-should gladden the heart of Mayor John Lindsay and further his campaign to put a movie crew on every street in Fun City...
...Spafford had come to the 1848 public declaration of independence for women, the Declaration of Women's Rights set forth in Seneca Falls, New York. She skimmed on to the present. Here Dr. Bennetta B. Washington, wife of Washington, D.C.'s Negro mayor, took over: "Women--Today and Tomorrow." She was now speaking to a bored and increasingly restless audience. The more bold slipped...