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...most frightening thing about the situation," he concluded "is that it has unified the state of Mississippi behind Governor Barnett. Eight months ago, Barnett was extremely unpopular because he hasn't been a very good executive. If he were to run for office today, he would carry over 90 per cent of the state. There is absolutely no opposition in evidence...
Landis. To many of the New Deal's enemies. Professor Frankfurter seemed downright sinister. His outspoken interventions on behalf of Sacco and Vanzetti and other unpopular defendants in the 19205 had led Chief Justice William Howard Taft to remark that he "seems to be closely in touch with every Bolshevist, Communist movement in this country." As late as 1945, a Southern Congressman told the House that "practically every department is now infested with those who see eye to eye with Frankfurter-the Rasputin of this Administration." ∙ But fears that Frankfurter would be a flaming radical on the bench...
...Level Productivity. Bundesbank President Karl Blessing says West Germany is catching "the English disease," by which he means allowing wages to outrun productivity, thus pricing goods out of foreign competition. But the unpopular "wage pause" ordered by the Macmillan government a year ago has helped Britain to hold wage increases to 4.6% and to spur British exports to the Common Market countries, where wages are increasing much faster. Britain's increase in productivity, however, is a poor 2^%, and companies with excess capacity find little incentive to expand. Managers are also delaying decisions to spend until they learn whether...
...reason for the delay was fairly obvious. As a union organizer the woman had to spend most of her time with the Negro community and consequently became unpopular with the whites. Niether she nor her two Negro partners came from Kent County, and the team was called "a group of urriners" bu the local newspaper. The white community might be unwilling to act violently toward her but it wasn't about to help her out when she got into trouble...
Political refugees are getting a cool reception in many parts of the world, but few are so unpopular as those who are pouring into France's seaport city of Marseille. They are the refugee European pieds-noirs from Algeria. Since May 1, the new arrivals have swollen Marseille's population from 800,000 to nearly 1,000.000-and the city is beginning to burst at the seams. "The pieds-noirs are like sleeping pills," said one local official. "You can safely swallow only a certain dose...