Word: tokenisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...point clear?... Yet in spite of these remarks Ralph McGill is invaluable, because the South needs his voice on civil rights. By the same token, however, Senator Fulbright, whom your "profile" writer permits Mr. McGill to criticize without rebuttal as a pathetic "sort of character with a great liberal reputation," is equally invaluable--obviously not because he votes against open housing legislation but because the nation needs his voice on foreign policy...
...Federal Firearms Act is even more useless. It really keeps no one--even a criminal--from buying a gun, since there is no means for assuring that the name given by the buyer is correct. The license fee for dealers is a token $1 per year. Until a recent crackdown by the government, many gun fanciers used this portion of the act to declare themselves "dealers" and receive discounts from wholesale gun houses...
...moment, there is no formal membership in the Union, but proposals have been made for either a list which members would sign or a token donation to the Union, which would entitle donators to membership cards...
...neither extreme outcome. Harvard has performed well at Ithaca in the last two years, losing only by narrow 7-6 and 4-3 scores. And on the other hand, in its three years of ascendancy, Coach Ned Harkness's team has never lost an important Ivy game. The token defeats--to Harvard, Yale, and this season Brown--have been significant only as demonstrations that Cornell could lose...
More than a few influential observers-Lyndon Johnson among them-believe otherwise. Such is Wilbur Mills's prestige among his colleagues that his failure to endorse the tax bill has undoubtedly cost it crucial votes. By the same token, should Mills reverse his field, there are those who would take any odds that the rest of the House, within a matter of weeks or at most months would have more than enough votes to pass...