Word: appomattox
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stillness at Appomattox. In Memphis, Lawyer Robert E. Lee refused to defend Ulysses S. Grant, who was charged with public drunkenness, then explained: "What would people say if I lost the case...
...Senate floor of the State Capitol in Richmond one day last week-some 98 years after Virginia voted 88-55 to secede from the Union-there were moments when it seemed that the senator from the Appomattox District wanted to secede again. Proclaimed Senator Charles T. Moses, waving a portrait of Robert E. Lee astride Traveller: "That's the man for states' rights! He didn't surrender! He just walked in to see General Grant, gave his hat to a courier and said, 'We're out of food!' " The occasion: the diehards...
...staked his power on a new program drawn up by a committee headed by Lynchburg's Senator Mosby G. Perrow Jr. The key bill would return pupil placement to local school boards, subject to rules set by the state board of education. In the final vote, minutes after Appomattox' Moses waved the picture of Lee, the Almond forces carried the day by 21-18. The house passed the senate version...
...Lieutenant Governor's race. He held office only two years before the Supreme Court handed down its desegregation decision, and soon after, Incumbent Governor William B. Umstead died of a heart attack. Suddenly the tenant farmer's son stood amidst the biggest crisis since Appomattox...
...mass rally in Atlanta last week, Southern moderates spoke with a fervor and eloquence they often lack. Said Sylvan Meyer, 37, editor of north Georgia's Gainesville Times: "Our state leaders have failed us miserably. The doctrine of state sovereignty died at Appomattox and was reinterred at Little Rock." His applauding listeners: 1,500 parents, civic leaders and students, members of a brand-new organization of protesting moderates, HOPE, Inc. (for Help Our Public Education) and its student counterpart, SOS (Students for Open Schools...