Word: parkers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...facto segregation, he has voted to set immediate plans in motion for complying with the state Racial Imbalance Bill. He is joined on these issues by his four fellow candidates of the Citizens for Boston Schools: Melvin King, Velia Dicesare, John F. X. Gaquin, and George H. Parker, King, a Negro and a Roxbury social worker, would at long last give ghetto residents a voice in school planning...
...courtesy and swore unshakable fidelity to the Crown. After token conciliation at Spithead, the government set its chin. In the Nore anchorage at the Thames mouth, a troubled old admiral named Charles Buckner listened with some sympathy to the complaints presented by the elected "president" of the mutineers, Richard Parker, the son of a grain merchant who had once been an officer himself but got cashiered for insubordination. But the Admiralty overrode him, offered only a single term: "unconditional submission...
...ships. The unity of the Nore began to dissolve; defecting ships cut their lines at night and drifted away; loyalist cells formed in the mutinous crews, and there were bloody fights aboard. By lune, the great mutiny was over, a victim of its own irresolution. The Admiralty briskly hanged Parker and 35 other mutineers with a minimum of legal niceties and got back to the wars...
...course, that's not all that's happened in Los Angeles in the past few months. The city's Negroes rioted, and for all Chief Parker's and Mayor Yorty's protestations, the two men clearly bear responsibility for the racial violence. Los Angeles's Negroes are economically no worse off than those in cities where there were no riots. But they feel totally isolated from the city government. Yorty, who is probably a sincere casual bigot, just doesn't like to pay much attention to them; Chief Parker sees that the police keep them in their place...
Yorty and Parker do not seem to have learned the obvious lesson of the riots: policies that liberals have long called immoral are utterly impractical as well. Instead, the Mayor and his chief have denounced civil rights leaders, left-wingers, and federal interference even more vehemently than before. Yorty is supposed to be itching to run for Governor in the 1966 Democratic Primary against Pat Brown; he has already shown that he can take votes from liberal candidates by exploiting the crime issue...