Word: supportively
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Texas' three-term Lieutenant Governor, Preston Smith, 56, a homey, lackluster conservative from Lubbock, defeated Liberal Houston Attorney Don Yarborough* by 756,909 votes to 620,726 in a runoff for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination. Though articulate and imaginative, Yarborough failed to win any major financial or editorial support against Smith, who called for "more of the good, sound, conservative government we have had in the past." In November, Smith will face Wichita Falls Attorney Paul Eggers, a virtually unknown candidate who is unlikely to make Texas history by becoming the first Republican Governor since Reconstruction...
...Alabama's former Lieutenant Governor, James B. Allen, defeated Representative Armistead Selden to win the Democratic nomination for the Senate seat being vacated this year by Lister Hill, who is retiring. Since both Allen and Selden support former Governor George Wallace, they virtually ignored issues in their campaigns, relied instead on personal attacks, with Allen accusing Selden of being one of "the Washington crowd"-a dirty phrase in Alabama. The Republicans, who will nominate a candidate at their convention this month, have little hope of preventing Allen from traveling up to join the Washington crowd himself...
Bayard Rustin, invited by Abernathy to make order of the chaos surrounding the upcoming mass march June 19, took his task seriously and responsibly, setting out to organize a peaceful demonstration and asking the support of all "Americans of good will." When he followed by issuing a manifesto of reasoned, possibly attainable goals, his measured moderation proved too much for the conflict-ridden Abernathy inner circle...
...housing bill, extension to farm workers of labor bargaining rights, more funds for welfare budgets and emergency food programs for the poor. Abernathy's fiery new demonstration director, Hosea Williams, sneered that Rustin's manifesto was an unauthorized "bunch of foolishness." Rustin asked for Abernathy's support. It was not forthcoming, and he quit. Abernathy had already named a replacement, and Rustin's departure left Resurrection City to ranters...
While Williams tried fecklessly to provoke mass arrests, bending the campaign toward civil disobedience, Resurrection City's population shrank to a minimum estimate of only 500. Violence was rising, vituperative militance was alienating liberals, who are Abernathy's only real source of mainstream support, and the pretender to the role of Martin Luther King was letting the Poor People's Campaign wallow into disorder, disintegration and self-defeat...