Word: almond
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Governor Lindsay Almond, highly skilled lawyer and vote-getting politician, the conflict between republican law and regional politics as dictated by prejudice comes to bear in a microcosm. Almond is a true son of the Virginia that gave to the U.S. eight Presidents, including Washington, Jefferson and Madison, the bone, blood and brain of the republic. He is equally a son of the Virginia that gave to the Confederacy its crimson fields, its grey-clad men, and above all its leaders, who should have known better...
...life intertwines his state's segregation struggle much as the Virginia creeper chokes the mountain forests. As the attorney general who argued Virginia's school cases before the Supreme Court, Lindsay Almond is one of segregation's ablest legal advocates. "Don't you kid yourself," says a longtime Almond adversary, N.A.A.C.P. Special Counsel Thurgood Marshall. "He is a good lawyer." Precisely because he is a good lawyer, Lindsay Almond understands that Virginia, in its "massive resistance" delaying tactics, is merely living from stay to stay. Sighed the Governor last week, "We might have to take...
...Politician Almond cannot always afford the judicial view. Sworn to a no-surrender policy against integration, he can fan dangerous emotions with the best of demagogues, warning that the Supreme Court will soon "make it lawful for a Negro to intermarry with a white person," describing civil rights programs as "ribald, unconstitutional, politically designed, cheap and tawdry" or "communistically conceived and sponsored...
Again, as a onetime Lutheran Sunday-school teacher, Almond is genuinely devout. He gets real pleasure out of troweling around with roses, peonies and irises, because "among my flowers I can always feel the presence of deity." He would be horrified if accused of un-Christian prejudice. Yet in fact he springs from the same land and loins as his blood brother, Joseph...
...Marion Almond, chief of the boiler room at the Bethesda Naval Hospital, who says: "As for ingetration [sic'], you can quote me that I am 100% against it. I never let any nigger come close...