Word: mississippi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...candidate who consults without embarrassment the root premises of the conservative philosophy of government." He reserved his coldest scorn for Lindsay, accused him of turning the G.O.P. into "a rump affair" that is "no more representative of the body of Republican thought than the Democratic Party in Mississippi is representative of the Democratic Party nationally." Lindsay, he said, "having got hold of the Republican Party, now disdains the association, and spends his days, instead, stressing his acceptability to the leftwardmost party in New York, the Liberal Party...
...first time since the '30s, Negro field hands are striking on the cotton plantations of western Mississippi, where the pay is $3 a day and the hours are dawn to dusk. Ardently promoting the strike and helping to organize a union of the fieldworkers is the Delta Ministry, set up by the National Council of Churches last September to work for social and economic justice for Negroes and achieve a "reconciliation" of the races in Mississippi...
...JUDICIAL APPOINTMENTS. Two vacancies on the nine-judge Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals-a key court in civil rights cases because it includes Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas-will be filled "very shortly" by an old Johnson friend, Texan Homer Thornberry, and by a former Mississippi Governor (1956-60), James P. Coleman. Thornberry, a federal district judge in Austin since 1963, succeeded Johnson in the House of Representatives in 1948 when Lyndon was elected a Senator. In the House, he was a Johnson-Rayburn-type moderate. Coleman is a segregationist-but far from a rabid redneck...
...Bronx boy, Screvane is of Italian and Irish parentage, went to Mississippi State University on an athletic scholarship. He is still a physical culturist, enjoys performing deep knee-bends while standing on one foot. He left school after one year, became a city garbage-truck driver at $30 a week. He worked his way up to the $25,000-a-year job of sanitation commissioner. It was from that post that Bob Wagner, in 1961, appointed him deputy mayor, then picked him as a running mate. In New York, the city council president is something like a vice president. What...
...most leagues, nine wins out of 46 would be rated an anemic average, but Mississippi has been a one-team league for so long that G.O.P. officials were elated. To Republican State Chairman Wirt Yerger Jr., an efficient organizer who has seeded all of Mississippi's 82 counties with G.O.P. workers, the party's victories represented "a history-making breakthrough, particularly because they were at the grass-roots level." Next year, added Yerger, the G.O.P. will try for all of Mississippi's congressional seats, and will even contest Veteran Senator James O. Eastland's. Said Yerger...