Word: unfairnesses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Beyond the constitutional arguments, Talmadge bares his teeth and growls the loudest at the NAACP. He particularly dislikes NAACP-inspired bloc voting which he considers "unfair" election practice. (Talmadge himself has Georgia voting districts so rigged that although his choice for governor in 1954 won only 36.6 percent of the popular vote, he was a landslide winner under the state's county unit system.) But bloc voting is only one of the NAACP's crimes. They are also opposed to poll-taxes, have a powerful lobby, and hold parties where whites are sometimes seen dancing with Negroes. The NAACP...
...victorious group. Since nobody in 1951 was apt to ally with either the Communists or the Gaullists, this method allowed the center parties to unite as friends long enough to win all the seats in the department, then as rivals to whack up the spoils. Basically, it is unfair, and most Deputies admit it. Still in effect, it was the only one with a chance of approval in time to allow Faure's early elections...
...Unfair as much of it was. Gaitskell's attack hit home. Butler's face flushed, and one or two of his back-bench supporters deserted him and voted with the Laborites when the division came. In the end, the Tories had the votes, and Butler's budget would be accepted; yet his remedies were not only unpopular, they were also, to many minds, inadequate...
...Unfair Advantage. In London, after being fined ?5 ($14) for stealing from a self-service store, Mrs. May Hampton, 43, complained indignantly in court: "The public should be protected from this kind of shop; you can go in and steal anything and no one is the wiser...
Taxes Not Unfair...