Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...highly urbanized New Jersey, for example, Scranton's brand of Republicanism is popular. Senator Clifford Case is a dedicated Scranton supporter, and many other delegates are known to favor the Pennsylvanian. Yet last week, after Goldwater appeared and spoke before the delegation, it voted to go to San Francisco uncommitted, thereby denying Scranton a breakthrough just when he needed one. In Delaware, Goldwater picked up a handful of delegates without lifting a finger; Senator John Williams, who had been set up as a favorite son in a holding action against Goldwater, announced for Barry and promised to release...
...spoke Ev Dirksen at suburban Chicago's O'Hare Inn, where the 58-member Illinois delegation to the Republican National Convention met in caucus. Goldwater backers burst into wild applause, followed quickly with a roll call that produced 48 diamond-hard convention votes for Barry; the other ten delegates remained publicly committed to no one, but there was every possibility that Goldwater would wind up with at least...
...Reassuring Note. Four and a half hours later, the civil rights bill lay on President Johnson's desk. Staring deep into the eyes of television cameras, Johnson spoke slowly and somberly to the nation. Millions of Americans have been denied equal opportunity because of their color, said the President, "but it cannot continue. Our Constitution, the foundation of our Republic, forbids it; the principles of our freedom forbid it, and the law I will sign tonight forbids...
After a fashion, this policy worked for years. St. Augustine had no race trouble to speak of, and when it did, the Record barely spoke of it: last October, when the first lunch counters were integrated in St. Johns County, of which St. Augustine is the seat, the Record gave the incident 1 ½ in. on an inside page. But last April the South's biggest story also became the biggest story in St. Augustine. That was the month that the civil rights movement enveloped the city...
...Even the inadequate legislation we have," Howe said, "gives the President the power to act." He spoke at a rally sponsored by the Summer Civil Rights Coordinating Committee (CRCC) to raise money for the students working on the COFO summer project in Mississippi...