Word: precinct
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...future legitimization move within the national party. Leader John Cashin, a Huntsville dentist, is attempting to set up a parallel party structure. The major question in state politics will probably be answered folowing the November election, will Wallace's old-line party withdraw all the way down to the precinct-level from the national Democratic Party...
...very close to taking over the state organization. They controlled about forty-five per cent of last summer's party convention and won a proportionate number of seats on the national convention delegation. Party elections are in January; following the November elections the Kennedy-McCarthy coalition hopes to organize precinct by precinct to rest control from the corrupt party organization in January...
Only twenty-five days after Chicago, the defeated anti-Administration forces--referred to as "the people" by McCarthy officials--are attempting to take over the party, precinct by precinct. Never again will the party be so unresponsive to the will of the people, if the liberals have their...
...Watson, 48, son of a deputy sheriff and now vice president of Local 4367 of the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers Union. This will be his first national convention, but Watson has been a political activist since 1952, when he lost a bitter factional fight in his local precinct. "The issue then-as now-was whether liberals or conservatives would control the Texas Democratic Party." Watson favors Humphrey, and thus finds himself for once on the same side as his longtime conservative opponents...
...police station remains a place of fear. Precinct-house brutality is uncommon today but not unheard of. When he was Detroit Commissioner in the early '60s, relates U.S. Circuit Judge George Edwards, police sometimes told him that prisoners hurt themselves "falling on the precinct steps." He wondered how a handcuffed man, surrounded by four officers, could possibly suffer a "four-inch cut on the top of the head" in such a fashion and ordered his cops to tell him the facts. He never again received such a report?and, he adds, prisoners tended to "fall" less frequently. Oakland police were...