Word: slated
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...when insurgent blacks and white civil rights activists, calling themselves the Mississippi Democratic Freedom Party, invaded the convention floor. Nonetheless, the Negroes' success last week may prove short-lived. Segregationists among more than 400 whites dominating the state meeting in July could still bulldoze through an all-white slate of delegates, arguing that Negroes had been duly included in the initial selection process. Evers and other black delegates are preparing for an eventual challenge, joining the Freedom Democrats in what could become another furious fight for Mississippi's seats at Chicago...
...carried every one of Omaha's 14 wards. He ran ahead in 88 of the state's 93 counties. Even in Lancaster County, home of the University of Nebraska and a putative McCarthy bastion, Kennedy lost by only two votes. McCarthy had entered a full slate of committed delegate candidates, while Kennedy was unable to match him, having entered the race after the filing deadline. Kennedy was therefore forced to line up uncommitted candidates and conduct an advertising campaign to identify them to the electorate. Picking and choosing among 75 unfamiliar names, the voters gave him at least...
...loss might well have crippled him. The win would have been sweeter, of course, had it been against his prime opponent, Hubert Humphrey, but Humphrey's name will be on no presidential primary ballots this year. On the same day that Kennedy carried Indiana, however, a Kennedy slate of delegates defeated pro-Humphrey candidates with surprising ease in the District of Columbia primary-a contest that Humphrey, with better organizational work, might have won. Kennedy will get all of the District's 23 votes...
...College and graduate schools, as well as professors and anyone else holding a Corporation appointments, are ineligible to serve on the Board of Overseers, and only alumni of the College or graduate schools may vote. Every year, five alumni are elected for a six-year term from a slate of nominees drawn up by the Associated Harvard Alumni. The nomination procedure should be changed so that anyone who wishes to run would need a certain number of signatures of eligible voters on a petition...
...case of Ward 9, the overwhelming victory of the student slate could encourage people to run against Hickey. The Committee makeup has worried Hickey enough to make him abortively attempt to win the chairmanship for himself, even though he finished behind all 12 opponents...