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...full force of government for the advancement of social, political and economic justice at the municipal, state, national and international levels." With Richardson Dilworth. who succeeded him as mayor, and Jim Finnegan. now Adlai Stevenson's campaign manager. Clark led the revolt that turned Philadelphia from a Republican stronghold into a Democratic bastion...
Perhaps the one last stronghold of the small individual group on the Tufts campus is its fraternities and sororities. These are only indirectly connected with the powerful Student Council and have their own governing inter-fraternity system. Yet it is almost a fact at Tufts that any student who shows an interest in a fraternity will be accepted by at least one. And it is for this reason that many of the fraternities have dropped their national affiliation which sometimes demands observance of a racial clause or some other discriminatory policy...
...York City thus became the nation's Democratic stronghold, and (with a valuable assist from the Democratic-oriented Liberal Party) remains so today. Of the city's 8,000,000 total population, some 5,000,000 are members of minority groups-and the vast majority have kept faith with the Democratic Party. Drawing on that faith, Democratic candidates can frequently win pluralities of more than 600,000 votes in New York City (Averell Harriman carried the city by 698,000 for governor...
What happens when a contractor persists in handling Kohler was shown a fortnight ago in Kenosha, Wis., a labor stronghold. Construction of St. Mark's Catholic parochial school there was held up for two days by pickets until the contractor, N. A. Thomas of Racine, trucked away 34 pieces of Kohler plumbing worth $3,500. In some areas even state and municipal governments have hopped on the boycott bandwagon. The Massachusetts Legislature and Boston's City Council condemned purchases from Kohler. So have the councils of Bridgeport, Waterbury, and Ansonia, Conn., and Lincoln Park, Mich...
Maine's Governor Edmund Sixtus Muskie is a tall (6 ft. 4 in.), genial, boyish (42) Democrat with a demonstrated flair for the political upset in a traditionally Republican stronghold. Last week, 21 months after he achieved the improbable by vaulting into the Statehouse over a faction-ridden G.O.P., he sauntered unopposed through the state primary and seemed as popular as ever...