Word: southerns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Circuit Court as Albert Parr Tuttle and John Minor Wisdom, Thornberry took generally progressive stands on civil rights and free-speech cases. In 1966, he wrote the decision that struck down Texas' poll tax. Last year he sided with an 8-to-4 majority that ordered Southern schools to speed school desegregation. This year he overturned a local Louisiana ordinance restricting picketing with the words: "In an open society there must be the ability to advocate views in the hope of changing existing preconceptions or convictions...
Seeking to make his own break, Rocky kept lambasting Nixon. For several days, he made capital of a blooper by Nixon's Southern campaign manager, Congressman Howard ("Bo") Callaway, who declared: "Perhaps we can get George Wallace on our side. That's where he belongs." Nixon finally disavowed any connection with the former Alabama Governor...
Leaders of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, who are still in Washington with about three hundred campaigners (some in the D.C. jail), admitted last week that it is a good thing that the City is gone. The Rev. Andrew Young and the Rev. Hosea Williams of SCLC both said that the business was a mistake...
...many of the nation's 7,000 Negro doctors, admission to the American Medical Association (216,000 members) has always been beyond reach. Almost all of the organization's Southern chapters have excluded them by means devious or direct. Black doctors have turned to the 5,600-member National Medical Association, founded in 1895 and now 95% Negro. Another result has been bitterness among black doctors, who are refused the right to practice in full-facility hospitals that require membership in A.M.A.-affiliated county medical societies. Last week the A.M.A. finally faced up to the problem by calling...
Instinctively Wary. Ahmanson's growth was as phenomenal as that of Southern California itself. The Omaha-born son of the owner of a small insurance company, Ahmanson had built a $20,000 stake in the stock market by age 18, moved west to sell fire insurance, took to buying up foreclosed property during the Depression when, as he recalled, the "worse things got, the better they were for me." And when things got better for Ahmanson, they were fantastic. Deep in both S & Ls and real estate when the California building boom hit in the 1950s, Ahmanson profited from...