Word: units
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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 is a terrible menace to America. ("They take the same attitude about swimming pools...
...unit yet," said coach Half Ulen, "and it will be hard, frankly, to match last year's record. It's up to the boys. But they've produced before," he added...
...fund was established three years ago by the Ford Foundation as an independent unit. It was given $15 million and told to spend it in support of "activities directed toward the elimination of restrictions on freedom of thought, inquiry and expression in the U.S., and the development of policies and procedures best adapted to protect these rights." The great bulk of money spent so far has been on projects that come clearly within the fund's directive. Among these was the $64,000 study by Washington Lawyer Adam Yarmolinsky (TIME, Aug. 29) that, in its presentation of some shocking...
...grave instance of big companies "swallowing up" family enterprises. By buying out former customers, said O'Mahoney, G.M. was simultaneously providing itself with a "captive market" and depriving competitors of a customer. But Euclid's former President Raymond Armington (who now runs Euclid as a G.M. unit) explained that his family-owned company, short of money for diversification, had fallen into "a very vulnerable position" to resist big competitors. "It would be a fine thing," said Armington, "if small family companies like Euclid could continue to stay small and independent. The fact remains that Euclid has just gone...
...Stevenson. He was for Georgia s U.S. Senator Richard Russell in 1952; he is expected to favor a candidate of conservative stripe in 1956. After setting himself up as a favorite-son candidate, Happy is expected to take to Chicago a delegation instructed to vote for him under the unit rule. From that position, he will be able to trade the Kentucky delegation for whatever he can get. Said one veteran Kentucky politician: "Happy will be for Happy and nobody else...