Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Slowly and painfully, most of the 382 Negroes who have been elected to public offices in the South-ranging from mayor and state representative to constable and justice of the peace-have discovered that getting elected is only half the battle. Now, to help solve some of the problems facing Southern black officeholders, the Voter Education Project of the Southern Regional Council has set up five campus service centers to provide basic training.* These centers hold workshops for potential candidates on legal requirements for filing, costs and techniques of campaigning, and their official duties. They also provide advice to those...
...telling the men that the "last thing you need is a speech from me." But Reagan ended up with the rhetoric of a simpler kind of homecoming--welcoming "you valiant men"--and Sen. Smith drove it into the ground in her speech. After she was done, the proud little mayor of San Diego took ten minutes to tell the men how just really delighted his city was to host this happy reunion...
...Dating Game's idea of a date was to send them to Australia where they would be given the keys to the city of Sydney by its mayor "loose Bruce Small...
...union resistance to automation. He had powerful local support from the beginning. Otis Chandler's nonunion and increasingly automated Los Angeles Times, a bit beset by federal antitrust action, feels more comfortable with a rival around. For a time, it helped Hearst print his strike-bound paper. Mayor Sam Yorty, a Democrat of sorts, put city hall on Hearst's side. "I think the unions should get wise to themselves," he said. "They're putting the newspapers out of business." More important, the city's big businessmen stuck with Hearst. Although the paper sold about...
...Good Enough. New York officials awoke in a hurry. Mayor John Lindsay ordered a prompt investigation. Hurrying home from a European vacation, Police Commissioner Howard Leary assembled his officers and said: "For your men to patrol 95% of the time or 98% of the time is not good enough for me." At a news conference, he added, "I am personally embarrassed, and the department is embarrassed...