Word: righter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...field of 22 candidates, little-known Houston Attorney Thad Hutcheson, an Eisenhower-backed Republican, got 220,361 votes, placed third. Second, with 291,106 votes, Democratic Congressman Martin Dies, a segregationist and onetime Red hunter, whose conservatism runs so deep that he had labeled Republican Hutcheson a "federal-righter." The combined Republican and conservative-Democrat vote gave Hutcheson and Dies about half a million votes, while Liberal Yarborough got 363,834 votes, 38% of the close to million-vote total. Yarborough had actually won with fewer votes than he had polled in any of his earlier, losing gubernatorial campaigns...
Pickett announced as starters Tom Day at goal, John Righter, Nick Lamont, and Dave Sweet on attack, Norm Rockefeller, Dick Parks, and John Gould as midfielders, and Dain Trafton, John von Stade, and Ed Tarlov on defense...
...tragic day in American history," mourned Syndicated Columnist David Lawrence. "What's happened to the government of the State of Tenessee and its governor? Is it still a state of the Union or has it abdicated entirely to the Federal Government?" States'-Righter Lawrence was reflecting the anguish and anger of other states'-righters as the Clinton, Tenn. integration case (TIME, Sept. 10 et seq.) moved from the local schoolroom to the federal courtroom with the arraignment last week of 16 segregationist leaders before a federal judge on con-tempt-of-court charges...
...Evarts, Prescott, Jr.; Framke, Carl A. III (Captain); Garrison, John R.; Halaby, Samuel, Jr.; Hauge Christopher W.; Hughes, Donald E.; Kaltreider, Henry B.; Keohane, Harold J.; King William B.; Kirk, Paul G., Jr.; Leamy, Charles D.; Marmor, Theodore R.; McDonald, Romeo M.; Pohlig, Bradley R.; Robbins, Theodore B.; Righter, John F.; Rhodes, C.; Sakowitz, Robert T.; Soderberg, Jon R.; Vultaggio, Phillip A.; Waterman, George H. III; Walker, Chauncey L.; Barber, John T. (Manager...
...Powell was no longer considered a Democrat, what about Mississippi's pure-white Democratic Representative John Bell Williams, who backed States'-Righter T. Coleman Andrews against Adlai Stevenson? Was that a case of another color? Well, said Sheppard, his group had not "as yet gone through the entire employment category and classified Democrats v. Republicans...