Word: central
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Governor Orval Faubus, and indeed the whole segregation issue, out of the election. They even went to Faubus and begged him not to interfere. But Orval Faubus, hoping for a vote he might claim as popular approval for his wild attempt to prevent integration at Little Rock's Central High School, gave no promises. In fact, the word soon went out that his aides were on the telephone, whipping up support for the seven candidates supported by the segregationist Capitol Citizens' Council (included were the president and secretary of the riot-causing Mothers League of Central High School...
...heaviest Good Government votes came from the Negro districts-and from residential Pulaski Heights, where live Little Rock's leading citizens. (One Faubus victory: in Little Rock's changeover to a city-manager form of government. Mayor Woodrow Wilson Mann, Faubus' foe in the battle of Central High, lost...
Presently grouped with the British Carribean possessions are British Honduras in Central America and British Guiana in South America. But these will remain crown colonies, and will not join the new federation...
...York Central put its famed Xplorer, which has been carrying passengers between Cleveland and Cincinnati, into short-haul service between Chicago and Elkhart...
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