Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...National Baptist Convention, U.S.A., Inc. Its 5,000,000 members are fond of fervent gospel songs and sin-damning sermons, and show little interest in merging with more staid and sober white Baptist groups. Their kind of leader is the Rev. Joseph Harrison Jackson, the grandfatherly ecclesiastical politician who last week in Detroit was overwhelmingly elected to his twelfth consecutive term as National Baptist president...
...short, the backlash issue may yet have some effect somewhere this year -but any politician who counts on its being a decisive factor had better start counting again...
...Humphrey's fire-eating stance as a doctrinaire liberal has long since shifted to that of the pragmatist who is satisfied to win what is winnable rather than go down to defeat demanding all or nothing. "I am not a theologian," he has said. "I'm a politician." Where he was once vocally suspicious of any business much larger than the corner drugstore or the family feed mill, he now takes pains to assure big businessmen of his modified views. "For the most part," wrote Humphrey in his recently published book, The Cause Is Mankind, "big corporations...
...years. We cherish our memories of the days when the Democrats railed at us as a 'one-party press.' The late great political reporter Sam Blythe set a stern standard for men in our trade. Said Sam: The only way for a journalist to look at a politician is down...
Essence & Energy. To Puerto Ricans, the Muñoz announcement meant much more than the leave-taking of an able administrator and brilliant politician. For more than a generation Muñoz has been the island's one and only leader-vigorous, charismatic, the essence and energy of an economic and social revolution that has touched the lives of every Puerto Rican...