Word: slate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...past month, during El Paso's mayoral campaign, few citizens have been able to ignore the heat. Pooley's evening Herald has campaigned splenetically for a Juan Smith slate ("The People's Ticket") headed by the county clerk, a third-generation El Pasoan of Mexican extraction named Raymond Telles. The usually mild-mannered morning Times fought a spirited battle to re-elect Mayor Tom Rogers and his board of aldermen. When the Times boasted that its candidate had trimmed the budget, Ed Pooley, a onetime bank clerk, promptly crowed that "the little bitsy budget cut" entailed...
PROXY TURNABOUT will send Fairbanks, Morse's President Robert H. Morse Jr. after seat on board of Penn-Texas Corp. at annual meeting in May. Insurgents plan to put up full slate of directors to oppose Penn-Texas' President Leopold Silberstein (TIME, Dec. 17 et seq.), who is fighting to win control of Fairbanks, Morse...
...remainder of the Smith slate. Thomas Winter, Vice-President; Alec Dawson, Operations Director; Bruce Mac-Gregor, Secretary; and Jerry Fulmer, Treasurer, were elected with little trouble...
Under this benign rain, Uchinada's population jumped to more than 6,500; slate roofs replaced thatch, and radio ownership almost doubled. In such circumstances it was hard to resent the 28 Americans stationed at the firing range, particularly since they committed no rapes, imported no "pompom" girls and even cheerfully helped clear the roads when it snowed...
...region's big dailies on the touchy desegregation issue. In the midst of the race riots in Clinton, Tenn., last December, Weekly Editor Horace Wells's Page One Courier-News column calmly argued for peaceful integration of Clinton's high school, helped elect a pro-integration slate to the city council (TIME, Dec. 17). "How long," asked the Courier-News at the height of the hoodlumism, "are the people of Clinton going to continue to sit idly by and see their officials kicked around merely because they believe in law and order?" Georgia's Eastman Times...