Word: tupelo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...advance work have improved after a disastrous start that was symbolized by a Mondale visit to a factory in Green Bay, Wis., two weeks ago: he had to wait for what seemed an eternity before any workers showed up to shake hands. At a meeting with top aides in Tupelo, Miss., following the fiasco, Mondale demanded that they stop arranging "cutesie" photo opportunities and schedule only "substantive forums" at which he could talk issues to live audiences. He also ordered longtime Aide Mike Berman to take tighter control of advance work. The result: crowds turned out last week and microphones...
Mondale, too, faced the boos of antiabortionists in a high school gym in Tupelo, Miss. Outside the school, black youths who favor Mondale and white students from a segregated Baptist academy got into angry shoving matches. Mondale got a helpful introduction from Tupelo Mayor James Caldwell, who said of him, "He doesn't have to talk about his beliefs. He practices them. He doesn't have to talk about prayer in school. He prays at home." But when a questioner described the Democratic platform as "antireligion," Mondale replied, "I have my faith, and it's my whole...
...Industrial Union Department of the AFL-CIO has half a dozen unions involved in an organizing campaign in Tupelo, Miss., and it is about to start a drive in the Baltimore-Washington area aimed specifically at women employees. White-collar workers are a prime target for organizing...
...Decency, which in February became a member organization of the Coalition for Better Television. In 1977 he gave up his ministry in a suburban Memphis congregation to work full time for untainted television. He operates out of a dog eared three-room office in an unprosperous quarter of midtown Tupelo, Miss., assisted by a staff of two. The office contains one color TV set, with a video tape recorder attached...
Butler was referring mainly to the Coalition for Better Television, which brings together the Rev. Donald Wildmon's National Federation for Decency and other right-wing groups like the Moral Majority. Formed last February, the coalition is headquartered in Tupelo, Miss., where Wildmon lives, and claims support from 5 million families in all 50 states...