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...Birmingham onetime West Point Football Coach Earl Blaik and former Secretary of the Army Kenneth Royall flew into the city at President Kennedy's behest to find ways of reconciling the Negro and white communities. White city officials deliberately failed to invite Negro leaders to the airport to welcome Blaik and Royall. Mayor Albert Boutwell, an ailing (diabetes) and so far totally unimpressive "moderate," set the tone by declaring that the Blaik-Royall mission would be of course purely advisory, added Birmingham's familiar refrain that past cooperation between the races had been "hampered largely by professional outside...
...behest of the governor of Jamaica, a bloodthirsty Blimp named Edward Eyre, British troops slaughtered 500 Jamaican Negroes, some without benefit of court-martial; they flogged and tortured 1,000 others, many of them women and children. The British met no real resistance, did not lose a single man. "Hole is doing a splendid service shooting every black man who cannot account for himself," one officer gaily wrote. "Nelson at Port Antonio hanging like fun by court-martial. I hope you will not send any black prisoners. Do punish the blackguards well...
After that, the U.S. Congress decided that Tito was a lost cause. At the urgent behest of the Kennedy Administration, Congress finally approved continued foreign aid to Yugoslavia, but revoked its "favored nation" status in U.S. trade...
...businessmen of Fort Worth-like those in many another U.S. city-watched in dismay as traffic congestion clogged downtown streets and customers fled to the suburbs. At their behest the city hired Architect-Planner Victor Gruen to redesign the downtown area, but Gruen's elaborate plan proved to cost more than the city fathers were prepared to pay. Then a downtown mall was tried, but planners failed to provide enough convenient parking space; in the Texas long hot summer, the few potted trees they installed did little to shade the wide concrete expanse, and business declined. But Marvin...
Brown served 34 years as secretary of the Missions Board, "thankful to have a part in the movement for human betterment." He produced what is still the classic guide to the essential meaning of pastoral life abroad, The Foreign Missionary. At the behest of his friend Herbert Hoover, Brown helped establish a number of World War I relief committees-notably Near East Relief, which raised more than $116 million to assist 1,500,000 war-dispossessed refugees...