Word: spokesmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...electoral votes in the election of November 1876 were so close and the charges of fraud so numerous that the election was thrown into Congress. Republican leaders knew that the doubtful votes of South Carolina, Florida and Louisiana would elect Republican Rutherford B. Hayes over Democrat Samuel Tilden. Spokesmen for the G.O.P. and for Southern Democrats met and made an agreement. The Southern states would throw their electoral votes to Hayes, and his Administration would grant concessions to the South. Among those concessions : 1) troops would be withdrawn, and 2) the states would be permitted to establish their own policies...
...tried to get along with the Communist regimes as long as they allow the Church to perform even a minimum of its functions, in order to spare the faithful persecutions and the prospect of martyrdom. There is also a "muscular"' faction in the Church-among its spokesmen are Cardinals Ottaviani, Canali and New York's Spellman-which believes that the Red regimes are slowly strangling Catholicism in Eastern Europe, and that it might be better to take a tough line, even if this should force the Church to go underground. Pius, gentle by nature, and diplomatic, will...
...trusty evolutionary maxim of famed Empire Builder Cecil Rhodes: "Equal rights for every civilized man . . ." The undeveloped African, said Huggins last week, "is very inflammable material." He cited the activities of the Rev. Michael Scott, the Anglican divine who has become one of the black men's busiest spokesmen in Africa and before the U.N. "The Reverend Scott," said Huggins bitterly, "recently visited Nyasaland on a 'peaceful mission.' Disturbances among the Negroes followed, and Scott's bag as a result is eleven Negroes killed [in clashes with the police]. That is not bad for a peaceful...
...A.F.L.'s Teamsters' Union, headed by ambitious, bulletheaded Dave Beck, is reported to have paid $250,000 toward the purchase of the Los Angeles Daily News (circ. 188,453). Although News Publisher Robert L. Smith denied the report, union spokesmen say "there is a chance that some arrangements have been made...
Telephone company spokesmen said the new rate will apply to all types of service...