Word: mississippis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Contests. The Democrats' unity this year is in part the result of a bitter, twelve-year party reform. It began when a delegation of blacks from Mississippi's Freedom Democratic Party challenged the white Mississippi regulars at Atlantic City in 1964. The battle to open the party's processes to women, blacks and other underrepresented groups was stepped up following the 1968 convention. Now it has begun to pay off, and the party seems to be settling into a sound working relationship with its factions. Four years ago, challenges hung over the heads...
...Morale. The Wilkins flap was part of a deeper crisis in the venerable association. The organization came close to bankruptcy early this year when a Mississippi court ordered it to pay a white policeman $210,000 after state officers of the N.A.A.C.P. had accused him of brutality. Only a special $300,000 contribution from General Motors Corp. enabled the N.A.A.C.P. to post a $262,000 bond in order to appeal the state court's ruling...
...mass withdrawals, threatening the stability of the institutions involved. Finally, worried legislators enact a freeze on deposits-a la Franklin Roosevelt's Bank Holiday of 1933-leaving tens of thousands of savers wondering when, if ever, they can get their money out. It happened late last month in Mississippi, and the case serves as a reminder that there are still some holes in the vaunted system of federal insurance that generally makes the great bulk of deposits in banks and savings and loan associations totally safe...
...last October I walked out over a patch of prairie with my father, who was 80 years old. It was undulating land between the great rivers Mississippi and Missouri. We looked for an old friend of his-a red-tailed hawk with one of his tail feathers missing. He had perched for years as a sentinel on a tree on a far hill, crying his protest to intruders who entered his domain. Gone, mused my father, who had once carried me on his shoulders through these fields (now he needed my hand). Another friend swallowed by time, my father said...
...York's 16 uncommitted delegates and has a slight edge among Illinois' 13. Reagan's operatives, on the other hand, hope to chip away a few members from the overwhelmingly pro-Ford delegations in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Reagan is also confident of winning all of Mississippi's 30 seats since the delegates have adopted the unit rule (whoever wins a majority, however narrow, gets all 30). Ford is pondering a last-minute trip to Mississippi. "The delegation is probably 2 to 1 for Reagan now," says G.O.P. National Committeeman Clarke Reed. "But who knows? Hard...