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...Mississippi, the legislature passed a constitutional amendment empowering the state to abolish the public schools should no other way be found to keep the Negroes segregated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Time & the Schools | 9/27/1954 | See Source »

...amendment would permit the legislature to 1) abolish all public schools "as a last resort" by two-thirds vote; 2) allow individual localities to abolish public schools as they choose; 3) sell, lease or rent school property to private individuals, then pay each "educable" child's tuition to what would then be private, segregated schools...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Citizens (White) .Unite! | 9/20/1954 | See Source »

...President should offer to disarm down to a mere police force if others would do the same, under proper regulations. He should offer to abolish all offensive weapons, including the atomic variety, or submit them to foolproof international control. He should propose a new world agreement which would guarantee the East against Western aggression and vice versa. He should reiterate the God-given right of the peoples of all countries, large and small, to governments of their own choosing, at genuinely free elections by secret ballot. He should invoke the lofty principles and the spirit of international decency and justice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Judgments & Prophecies, Sep. 6, 1954 | 9/6/1954 | See Source »

...Geneva on abolition of the N.N.S.C. (a move which would make the struggle for information a straight contest between the intelligence services of both sides). Since the present N.N.S.C. operations are a substantial net benefit to the Reds, they are most unlikely to agree to any proposals to abolish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: The Mess in Korea | 8/16/1954 | See Source »

...Edmond Barfield of Atlanta, president of the National Association of Handicaps: abolish the Supreme Court...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Strategists | 7/12/1954 | See Source »

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