Word: southern
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wish to pass out brotherhood plaques here, I also smell the first spoor of real life; and the fact that two black policemen and one black councilman work across the street in the town headquarters makes for further fine tuning. (I recall, for instance, that "nigger" in many Anglo-Southern mouths is not a racial insult, but a dialect noun, one used for at least four centuries...
Preceded last fall by city officials' persistent and dramatic campaign extolling Detroit's convention facilities, the Republican Governor's pitch proved persuasive. Last week the G.O.P. committee voted, 95 to 52, to hold its July 1980 national convention in Detroit, despite the sniping of a few Southerners who opposed meeting in a Northern city that is heavily black and Democratic. Mississippi G.O.P. Committeeman Clarke Reed commented sarcastically that he was the only white Mississippian ever to visit Detroit, "and I don't want to be the only white man from Mississippi who has been to Detroit...
...Rockefeller holdings in Latin America, Nelson became familiar with the area and sensitive to its needs. When World War II broke out, President Roosevelt put him in charge of a new agency, the Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs, which countered Nazi pressures and propaganda in the Southern Hemisphere. Appointed Assistant Secretary of State for Latin American Affairs in 1944, Rockefeller persuaded the countries of the continent to sign a mutual security treaty. But when Harry Truman succeeded Roosevelt, Rocky's days as an administrator in a Democratic government were over...
...general review of global issues. The talk is virtually certain to focus on China's obsession: Soviet activity around the world. Other likely topics include such crisis situations as Viet Nam's rout of the Chinese-supported regime in Cambodia, the Shah's departure from Iran, tensions in southern Africa...
...white lawyer named Charles Morgan Jr. stood up before the businessmen's club and blamed the entire white community for the crime. Driven out of his town by harassment and death threats, he returned to the South in 1964 as the director of the American Civil Liberties Union Southern Region. He sued for integrated prisons and juries, legislative reapportionment and voting rights, and defended the likes of Muhammad Ali, Julian Bond and Mississippi N.A.A.C.P. Leader Aaron Henry...