Word: unionizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other elected officials. If no candidate received at least 40% of the vote, the top two aspirants would meet in a run-off election. The plan would eliminate the most glaring inequity of the existing method, under which a candidate could carry the most populous state in the union by only one ballot yet thereby claim all its electoral votes...
...Southerner and a strict constructionist, the South Carolina jurist expected opposition in his fight for Senate confirmation. Liberals and civil rights activists are upset by his go-slow attitude on integration, and union leaders by what they consider his anti-labor stand. Roy Wilkins, in a statement for the Leadership Council on Civil Rights, asserted that Haynsworth's confirmation would "throw another log on the fires of racial tension." A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany testified that he was "not fit to be an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court...
...Appellate Court judge's failure to remove himself from cases in which he may have had a financial interest. Led by Indiana's Birch Bayh, liberal committee members charged Haynsworth with conflict of interest for not disqualifying himself from a 1963 trial involving the Textile Workers Union and a firm that did business with a vending-machine company in which he had a one-seventh interest...
...United Mine Workers (UMW) last summer, the black lung disease, and all the problems of Appalachian poverty present a different set of problems for a political candidate entering the area. For years the mountain people had appeared satisfied to the politicians in Richmond, but food stamps and a sellout union are no longer acceptable to them a decade after John F. Kennedy focused attention on the area's problems in his West Virginia primary...
EASY RIDER is born of the natural union of American International motorcycle epics and all those westerns whose aging heroes have outlived their era. The two protagonists are as painfully inarticulate as any western idol; their sluggishness of mind is of course intended to be read as sensitivity and moral integrity. Billy's even decked out in a fringed suede jacket, boots, and cowboy hat. The beautiful Southwest landscapes of photographer Laszlo Kovaes turn hostile each night around the campfire, where a lot of authentic marijuana dialogue goes on. Like Western heroes, they are isolated in travel from their natural...