Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...contest sprang from an attempt by three segregationist members of the six-member Little Rock school board to fire 44 high school teachers (TIME, May 25) accused not of professional failure but of holding "imprudent" attitudes toward segregation. Shocked at the suggestion, the board's three moderate members walked out, began boycotting board sessions. Around them rallied some of Little Rock's most respected groups, including the P.T.A. Council, the ministerial alliance, and the Chamber of Commerce board...
...suggestions, had set off Little Rock's integration explosion in the first place. In a pair of televised speeches. Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus put prestige and passion squarely behind CROSS, dismissed STOP as "a smokescreen behind which the integrationists now move forward." Said Faubus: "When there is an attempt to force something bad or something thought to be bad upon the children of this state, I will resist such force with all my might, and it will pass only by trampling over my prostrate form." Confident that his ability to sway sentiment was as great as ever, Faubus went...
...Crafty Attempt. On the House floor, just before the vote, Majority Leader John McCormack was equally impassioned. Here, he said, were two philosophies-"the philosophy of the dollar and . . . the philosophy of human values." Minutes later, the House rejected the Herlong bill, 203 to 177. Charlie Halleck lost only six or seven of the voting Republicans, but such was the effectiveness of the Rayburn-McCormack effort that Southern Democrats did not cross over in nearly enough numbers...
...also claimed that the Drive will attempt next year to formalize its structure so that incoming freshmen can quickly become connected with it and later work their way up in the organization. Phillips is also introducing several other innovations, such as a kickoff dinner and more contact with the Masters to try to attain next year's goal...
...presidents of the ten Final Clubs will serve on an advisory Board of Patrons to the Combined Charities Drive next year. Howard J. Phillips '62, co-chairman of the Drive, said yesterday that the move is planned in an attempt to increase undergraduate interest in the Drive and also to increase its overall prestige...