Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Richmond News Leader editorial denouncing the Supreme Court [June 13] advocated that Virginia "get around the law." The angry editor adds: "Two broad courses only [are] available to the South. One [is] to defy the court openly and notoriously; the other [is] to accept the court's decision and to combat it by legal means...
There is a third course which is broader and bigger than these. It is to accept integration as an enlightened Christian policy of social justice and a way of life which preserve human rights against totalitarian tyranny in a rapidly changing world...
...supply (which cost the Government $2.5 billion, plus $150 million a year for storage fees). Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson cut the planted wheat acreage from 79 to 55 million, while the support price dropped from $2.24 a bushel to $2.06. To qualify for support payments, farmers had to accept quotas and acreage restrictions. They complained but complied. Result: the harvest fell from 1,300 million bushels in 1952 to 839 million this year...
...Francisco's tough, tree-lined Olympic Club links, the "Mechanical Man" from Texas had posted a score of 287-seven over par. The fifth U.S. Open title that he wanted so much was all but in the record books. But Ben Hogan was too cautious to accept congratulations: out there on that tight, demanding course, a couple of contenders were still playing, and he well knew anything could happen...
...year term as president. Hottest issue of the convention was a proposal made by the United Lutheran Church in America (membership: 2,061,004) that Augustana join with U.L.C.A. in inviting "all Lutheran Church bodies to participate in merger discussions looking toward organic union." The synod voted overwhelmingly to accept...