Word: segregationists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...With the help of a newly apportioned Democratic legislature, released for the first time from rural domination, he pushed through a number of progressive measures. His accomplishments gained added luster when his record was contrasted with the mediocre one of his Democratic predecessor and the putative program of his segregationist opponent, the bumbling George Mahoney. More money was put into much-needed state services and state administration was modernized. With experience gained during four years as executive of Baltimore County, the populous (620,000) suburban area that surrounds the city of Baltimore, Agnew was more than usually sensitive...
...Democratic gubernatorial primary, Jim Johnson's wife Virginia, also a segregationist ("Aren't we all?"), squeezed toward a runoff with the favored candidate, State Representative Marion Crank. Crank, whose campaign is well fueled by utility interests (he is dubbed "the Natural Gas Candidate"), is expected to win the runoff and then lose to Rockefeller, since Arkansas traditionally gives its Governors a second two-year term...
...Commitment. Young and the league's leaders, straining to meet all but the farthest-out extremists halfway, zeroed in on two grievous weaknesses that beset black moderates: the lack of involvement in the slums by middle-class Negroes and deep-seated white racism. To Young, Alabama's Segregationist George Wallace "is as American as cherry pie." Replied Merchant Stanley Marcus, head of the famed Dallas Nieman-Marcus store: "We must have a deep commitment by a vast majority of the white citizens of this country that this is their problem." And when twoscore ghetto youngsters invaded a league...
Such forces are at work even in the rather unusual case of Georgia's Democratic delegation, which is handpicked by Segregationist Governor Lester Maddox. Maddox cannot ignore the realities of political balance, and Georgia delegates aim to keep open minds. Or so insists Lawyer Irving Kaler, a Jewish liberal delegate who rebuilt the party's Atlanta machinery. "The convention atmosphere itself encourages you to consider very carefully," says Kaler, "You don't operate in a vacuum. Every instrument of public opinion is focused on you. If you wear a delegate badge, five people stop you before...
...trouble knowing who I am." Another, Bobby K. Hayes, 37, preaches an isolationist populist program that includes such unlikely reforms as a $2.50-an-hour minimum wage and elimination of capital gains taxes. Fulbright's strongest adversary is former State Supreme Court Justice Jim Johnson, 44, an avowed segregationist whose extremism as the Dem ocratic nominee for Governor in 1966 helped make Winthrop Rockefeller Arkansas' first Republican Governor since Reconstruction. Now Johnson's wife Virginia is a candidate for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination. Together they stump the state, espousing George Wallace's values and lambasting Fulbright...