Word: perez
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...Louisiana, Plaquemines Parish Boss Leander Perez urged whites to offset Negro voting gains by "rushing to the registrar's office." His plea had scant effect. In New Orleans, where there are 122,000 unregistered whites, the local registrar one day last week enrolled 386 Negroes−and 14 whites...
...where Segregationist Boss Leander Perez has kept civil rights workers at a safe distance by converting a swampy, snake-infested onetime Spanish fort on the Mississippi River into a concentration camp in anticipation of "racial demonstrators." Said Katzenbach: "If you are going to send examiners into Louisiana and don't send them into Plaquemines, then they can say you haven't any guts." Same as Whites. In the nine gut counties he finally selected-four in Alabama, three in Louisiana, two in Mississippi-Katzenbach said, the percentage of eligible white citizens on the voting rolls ranges from...
...Philippines, I believe, as well as other Asians and Europeans of Mr. Bartoll's thinking, could help in South Vietnam in nonmilitary roles, and together with America's military and all other assistance perhaps stand a fair chance of achieving our common purpose. Rafael Perez de Tagie...
Betancourt became president of Venezuela in 1945, was exiled by the regime of Marcos Perez Jimenez, and then served as Venezuela's elected president from 1959 to 1964 before stepping down. His citation called him "an intrepid statesman who has demonstrated to the Americas the vitality of democracy...
...hours the Senators permitted Perez to prattle on. Finally their patience wore thin. When Perez declared that "there is a Communist plan" behind the bill, Illinois Republican Everett M. Dirksen, one of its chief architects, made him eat his words. "That," snapped Senator Dirksen, "is about as stupid a statement as has ever been uttered in this committee room." Cowed, Perez asked that his comment be stricken from the record...