Word: regions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...homespun philosophy, face-to-face political common sense talk, and emotion-charged pleading, he is the embodiment of the great American ethic of the boy-who-grows-up-to-be-President. By the end of the day in New England, there was little evidence that the region had ever been a Republican stronghold...
...Quickened Lyndon's heart by passing, 45-13, the $1 billion "New Hope" plan for the impoverished Appalachia region, last of the President's major anti-poverty schemes. The bill now goes to the House, where a close vote is expected...
...seven unpaid members of the Warren Commission represented both parties and every major region of the U.S., had a common bond of integrity and accomplishment. As chairman, President Johnson picked Chief Justice Earl Warren, 73. From the U.S. Senate came Georgia's conservative Democrat Richard B. Russell, 66, the leader of the Senate's Southern bloc, and Kentucky's liberal Republican John Sherman Cooper, 63, a former circuit judge and Ambassador to India. From the House came Louisiana's Hale Boggs, 50, the House Democratic whip, and Michigan Republican Gerald Ford, 51, a Yale Law School graduate and an armed...
McComb is a town of about 12,000 in southwest Mississippi. This region has been the center of revitalized Ku Klux Klan activity and of the new Society for the Preservation of the White Race...
Most of these counties, including Marshall and Benton (which adjoins Marshall on its eastern border) lie in the Delta Fringe and Bluff Hills area. This region of Mississippi has a higher proportion of its labor forces in agriculture (59% in 1960) and a lower median family income than any other area of the nation...