Word: central
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...court that more than half the delegates had been illegally chosen. Hoffa saw to it that the credentials committee, headed by Kansas City Teamster Roy Williams, scratched 139 of the more doubtful delegates, and stamped the rest approved. (Williams' reward for loyal service: promise of chairmanship of the Central States Conference.) This thumping pretense served only to prove Hoffa's confidence of victory. "Are you running scared?" asked a newsman. Snapped Jimmy in a steely voice: "I never run scared at nothin', and I don't intend to start at this late date...
...Army's 101st Airborne Division from Little Rock. Specifically, they proposed that 1) Faubus make a formal declaration that he would now assume responsibility for law and order in Little Rock and also that he "would not obstruct" federal court orders to integrate Little Rock's Central High School; whereupon 2) the President should turn back the federalized Arkansas National Guard to state control and pull out the paratroopers "as soon as practicable," i.e., when order has been restored and the court-ordered integration enforced...
Does the U.S. think President Eisenhower was right or wrong to send federal troops to guard Central High School in Little Rock, Ark.? The answer, the Gallup poll found out last week, depends partly-but not entirely-on where the question is asked. Results...
President Eisenhower has refused to withdraw regular Army troops and federalized Arkansas National Guardsmen from the school until he is satisfied that the court-endorsed Central High integration plan will be enforced by local authorities...
...team located at State Teachers College in New Haven, Conn., reported to the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory here that it had tracked the rocket for about 35 seconds when it passed over central Connecticut at 6:23 a.m. EDST...