Word: board
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...victory for the moderates would not guarantee an all-moderate school board: vacancies can still be filled by the county school board, which seems pro-Faubus. Even an all-moderate board would not mean imminent integration of Little Rock's schools-but simply the first real step in that direction in 20 long months. Whatever the outcome, anti-Faubus sentiment was so rife last week that Faubus himself cautiously announced: "It's the people's business. If they want to recall anybody, that's their right under the law. I signed that law, you know...
...some alarm, the Dallas P.T.A. council last week urged the board of education to take stern measures-and quickly. The board warmly received one P.T.A. suggestion that all married students be banned from extracurricular activities next year. A second P.T.A. idea-consigning married students to separate schools-seemed a bit startling at first gulp. Mused one board member: "We already have a racial segregation problem here. Are we about to face a marriage segregation problem...
Born on the wrong side of the tracks, Ernie is the sort of stop-at-nothing cartoon capitalist who not only moved over to the right side-he also bought the tracks. The camera discovers him, in sleek middle age, roaring it up as the beast of the board room of the Eastern & Portland Railroad, whose cringing miscellany of vice presidents is pleading with the "general," as he likes to be called, not to ruin a poor helpless widow (Doris Day) and her two small children. With surly reluctance, he consents to make a nominal restitution to the "miserable broad...
...usual, a pretty slick job as a straight-face comic, and he would have done a better job-along with Actor Douglas and Actress Reynolds-if Director George Marshall had not decided to play The Mating Game at a speed less suitable to a romantic comedy than to a board of chess...
...million, a record peacetime total. Other sectors of the capital-goods complex, such as generator makers, locomotive builders, and construction equipment manufacturers, reported rising new business. Summed up McClure Kelley, president of Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton (machine tools, road-building equipment): "The improvement comes from an across-the-board increase in our regular business and extends to all lines of our business...