Word: almond
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...contrast to Almond, Evans is beautiful! Here is a young lady who has heard the command "Love one another...
Your article on Virginia's Governor Almond [Sept. 22] and the nation's oldest and most powerful political machine was excellent. As Horace ("Hunk") Henderson, young Republican candidate for lieutenant governor, put it, Virginia's government too long has been "of the Byrds, by the Byrds, and for the Byrds...
...ahead, Governors Faubus and Almond -close the schools. Make your stupid Southerners stupider...
Still, a grim alternative remains. Governor Almond expressed it yesterday, interpreting the recent Little Rock decision as saying "to the states that they must totally abandon not only free public schools where they cannot be operated on an integrated basis, but that they must not render any affirmative assistance to parents who will not send their children to racially mixed schools." The only way for a state to prevent mixed schools is to withdraw absolutely from the field of secondary education...
Closed Circuit. But such fulminations could not hide the fact that Faubus, like Virginia's Governor Almond, was having his troubles with citizens who simply wanted the high schools open again, Negroes or no. The first bursts of indignation came when the Little Rock school board interpreted his school-closing order as automatic cancellation of Central High's cherished football schedule. Faubus got out of that by accusing the school board of being integrationist, and the hapless board, already threatened with recall by petition, gave a green light to football practice and the game between Central High...