Word: mervyn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Blacks continued their advance into and up the political ranks. By 574 votes, Tennessee Democrat Harold E. Ford, 29, upset Republican Congressman Dan Kuykendall, bringing the number of blacks in the House of Representatives to 17. In Colorado, Democrat George Brown was elected Lieutenant Governor, and State Senator Mervyn Dymally gained the same post in California-the first blacks to win that office in any state since Reconstruction. Most impressive, however, was the hold blacks maintained on elective offices they already occupy and the dramatic increase of black officials in the South. Across the nation, nearly all black state legislators...
Warner LeRoy was four years old when his father Mervyn produced the movie The Wizard of Oz. Ever since, Warner's life has been filled with dreams and a need for the spectacular, and indulging them has proved profitable. LeRoy's latest dream fulfillment is Great Adventure, a 1,500-acre amusement park that opened this month in New Jersey featuring 2,000 animals (including a herd of elephants), chariot races, and one of the world's highest Ferris wheels (150 ft.). LeRoy has already shouldered Hardwicke Companies Inc., a firm in which he is a major...
...Church Times, England's leading Anglican publication, praised Coggan as a man of "true evangelistic zeal and fervor" who was taking on a job that was "no bed of roses." Wrote Mervyn Stockwood, the liberal and nonconformist Bishop of Southwark, in the London Times: "I placed Donald Coggan at the top of the list. [He] is well aware of the problems that confront a generation that has been reared in a scientific era ... [He] is increasingly aware of the need for the church to concern itself with practical affairs." Others praised Coggan's efficiency and administrative abilities...
...machinists win elections for God, country, Four More Years, and the War Board. Their supervisor is J. Mervyn Harris the 5 ft. 3 in. politician who is the local boss in Nether Providence...
...long frustrating night for J. Mervyn Harris. He had known all along that although Nether Providence needed reapportionment badly, when the ward leaders and township commissioners finally sat down to the grim business of taking from some and giving to others, it would be brutal. He had dreaded the meeting for days, and had prepared four separate plans after throwing out dozens. He had expected it to be rough and it was worse...