Word: slominski
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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BUFFALO PATRIOTS The clearest case of a city divided over issues of crime and race may be Buffalo. There, liberal Democrat Frank A. Sedita, 62, a career politician who has served two terms as mayor, is in danger of being unseated by Mrs. Alfreda Slominski, 40, a conservative Republican. It is something of a grudge match...
...Sedita refused to reappoint Mrs. Slominski to the city's school board because of her blunt opposition to using buses to help integrate the schools...
...attractive mother of two, Mrs. Slominski is a more engaging version of Boston's Louise Day Hicks.* Her campaign refrain repeats themes of "law and order," "safe streets" and "no bus sing." She once headed the ultraconservative Good Government Club, which has defended the John Birch Society as one of the nation's "finest and most patriotic organizations." However, when the club's newsletter recently belittled Jews and blacks with bad jokes, Mrs. Slominski, who is of Polish-American ancestry, decided it had gone too far and repudiated its support...
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