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...family friend. Mike opened a bigger store in Phoenix in 1870, sold out to establish another in Prescott; at one time or another, there have been Goldwater trading posts in such boom-or-bust settlements as Tombstone, Seymour and Bisbee, where the town's first lynch mob stopped at Mike's emporium to borrow a suitable length of rope. He retired to California in 1885, leaving the stores to his three sons, Morris, Henry and Baron...
This time the issue was Premier Hayato Ikeda's political-violence prevention bill, designed to prevent the kind of mob violence that last year forced Ikeda's predecessor, Premier Nobusuke Kishi, to cancel a projected visit from former President Dwight Eisenhower and, subsequently, brought Kishi's own resignation. Ironically, the bill was first urged on the government by the Socialists themselves, who took alarm when Socialist Party Chairman Inejiro Asanuma was assassinated by a fanatic right-wing student...
...Call Me." Back at the white mansion on South Perry Street, John Patterson and his family had finished an informal dinner of charcoal-broiled steaks on the terrace. The Governor was following the progress of the riot by telephone. When Public Safety Director Floyd Mann phoned that the mob was growing, Patterson declared martial law, ordered Adjutant General Henry Graham, a National Guard major general, to lead his troops to the church. Then Patterson called Bobby Kennedy to report that the Guard had gone into action, but that the general could not guarantee the protection of Martin Luther King...
...protect Martin Luther King." Patterson backed down, admitted that it was he, not the general, who felt that King could not be protected. As it turned out, General Graham was capable of protecting King and everyone else. He kept the Negroes in the stifling hot church until the mob was dispersed, then escorted them home early in the morning...
...Patterson was elected to his dead father's job, led the fight to mop up the mob in Phenix City. More important, he became a hero to many an Alabama voter by putting the N.A.A.C.P. out of business in the state for refusing to disclose membership lists. He fought Negro boycotts of stores in Tuskegee and of buses in Montgomery...