Word: backed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bros., the famed Manhattan international banking house. Because the Lehmans are Jews, Governor Patterson's dealings aroused Alabama's anti-Semites. In June, Patterson spoke to the state legislature, expressed sentiments that seemed heresy to Alabama's rabid segregationists. Said he: "We cannot afford to crawl back into a hole as far as public education is concerned." On a trip to Washington, Patterson met Massachusetts' Senator John Kennedy, whom he admired. Patterson promptly spoke up in favor of Catholic Jack Kennedy's presidential candidacy (TIME, July...
...Federal courts are good and rotten." At the intersection of 14th and Schiller Avenue the marchers came hard up against a thin line of Little Rock policemen. Four men of the mob rushed the line, trying to break through -and at that moment the clock seemed about to turn back two years to the race riots, incited by Arkansas' Governor Orval Faubus, that brought federal troops into Little Rock and led to the city's high schools being closed for a year. But last week's result was different, thanks to a tough cop named Eugene Smith...
...cops. "I see no reason for you to be beaten over the head today, or to be jailed," said Faubus. "That should be faced only as a last resort, and when there is much to be gained." Having nonetheless whipped the crowd to a rage, Faubus went back to his office-and the mob started down 14th Street...
Adding a surprising tidbit to the intraparty race was a mailing poll conducted by Jet Magazine among 200 of the G.O.P.'s leading Negroes, who might be expected to back Rocky because of good works done over the years by family philanthropies. But Nixon took 81.7% to Rockefeller...
...said Gallup in still another poll, has slipped back by 3% in the last month to flat out (26% each) with Adlai Stevenson...