Word: virginias
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sing Sing's death row (three are convicted police killers). The death penalty already has been abolished in whole or in part in twelve other states-Alaska, Hawaii, Iowa, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, North Dakota, Oregon, Rho.de Island, Vermont, Wisconsin, West Virginia. With the addition of New York, abolitionists have won over the most populous state thus far-and the one that developed the electric chair in the first place...
...less than 50% of the voting-age population were registered to vote or actually cast ballots in the 1964 presidential election. The device will automatically send federal examiners into Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, and a number of counties in other states including North Carolina and Virginia. The triggering device was the main feature of the bill drafted by Administration lawyers and Dirksen's staff, but the Senate added a few wrinkles of its own by providing that: >In any county where the U.S. Census Director finds that less than 25% of the adult Negro population is registered...
...Attorney General will challenge the constitutionality of poll taxes levied in state and local elections in Alabama, Mississippi, Texas and Virginia (the 24th Amendment bars poll taxes in federal elections). At the same time, the bill declares that such taxes amount to an infringement on the right to vote by discriminating against the poor, and particularly Negroes...
...dancer, his dialogue is great." For a honeymoon, Simon took his bride on a cruise through the Panama Canal, then went on a week's tour of East Coast steel mills to learn about the tin making that affected his tomato canning. One stop: at Wheeling Steel in West Virginia, where Simon informed Lucille: "Some day I'm going to be in the steel business." Said Lucille, whose sympathies were with the steel Industry's then embattled workers: "I hope you won't do that, because I could never eat bread from your table." Replied Simon: "Don't worry...
...earnings. If he finds a likely case, he may dispatch aides to probe the situation deeper, use his contacts in Wall Street to find out why things are not better than they are. Eventually Simon may make a visit to the company himself?he took eight trips to West Virginia in the course of buying into Wheeling Steel?but his trips are mainly for general impressions rather than to learn exact detail of operations. When he has finally made up his mind about a company, the hot line to Sutro & Co. of Los Angeles, his primary broker, lights...