Rabbits and race invoke a rustic lynching threat in a Southern letter
A reader in East Side voices hostility toward a cartoon wedding and mocks interracial marriage. The letter links racial prejudice to robbery with anti NAACP sentiments and attacks on Rev Mundell of Cady Wedding Chapel in Los Angeles. It ends with a biblical flourish condemning the NAACP.
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South
Harper
Buggs Bunny
Rabbit
NAACP
Charles
Mundell
Rev. Mundell
Couth
Citizens Council
John
How to Lose an Election Opinion in the 1960s
Lyndon Johnson faces Democratic party doubts as the ultra liberal 86th Congress nears five months in session. Republicans find optimism in Rockefeller's New York win and in House leadership. Johnson and Rayburn are blamed for party woes, while GOP hopes rise within a year of their last major defeat.
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Lyndon Johnson
Texas
Nelson Rockefeller
New York
Rockefeller
Johnson
Sam Rayburn
Sis
The Democratic leadership and the Johnson era
The piece argues that the slow Con gress results from the private interests and personalities guiding the party. It links Lyndon B Johnson’s posturing on space and world affairs to his focus on oil and special interests, noting his reluctance for extra federal spending and Byrd’s resistance to a workmen’s comp measure. It compares Johnson to Anglea who filled a leadership void.
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Congress
The
Wall St. Journal
Johnson
Outer
Lyndon
Texas Oil
Harry F. Byrd
Senate
H. Sanders Anglea
Nashville, Tenn
Fo Mh Anglea
Jehnean
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Hercules Powder Company
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