Word: ripon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Room to the Right. The Republican Ripon Society, a group dominated by young liberals, issued an 84-page examination of the relationship between the G.O.P. and the South. It charged that the Nixon Administration was "embarked upon a cynical and racially divisive path that can only end in tragedy." Moreover, the report said, any policy that tries to adjust "to the fears and prejudices of a narrow class of voters in the end is bound to fail." Based on a detailed state-by-state analysis, the Ripon report argues that there is "no room to the right" of rural Southern...
...RIPON COLLEGE Margaret Chase Smith, LL.D., Senator from Maine. A Dean of American women and Maine's gift to American statesmanship...
...agree with the President that there is the need of a Southerner on the court," Spong said. But Carswell's printed opinions as a district court judge turned out to have been reversed, when appealed, nearly three times as often as those of his colleagues, according to a Ripon Society survey. Spong added: "I spent the Easter recess reading the statistical data on his reversals, and opinions he had rendered on contracts and other matters with which I was familiar as a lawyer." He concluded: "The South has been patronized in that the President offered a nominee...
...bill passed through the Democratic-controlled legislature swiftly. Two Democratic candidates for governor this year, Kenneth P. O'Donnell and Boston Mayor Kevin White, both indicated support for this bill in its early stages. On the Republican side, the liberal Ripon Society supported the bill while Governor Sargent remained officially neutral. Once the legislature had passed the bill, it was submitted to the governor. The bill could have been become law without Sargent's signature, which would have allowed the governor to indicate moderate disapproval with the bill's content. As Sargent explained when signing the bill, although...