Word: centralize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like many another U.S. school last week, Central High in Little Rock, Ark. ground swiftly toward final examinations and commencement exercises on May 27. But the end of school will have a special meaning to Central High: under an order issued by President Eisenhower last week, it will also mark the end of service for the troops rushed to Little Rock eight months ago when a mob, egged on by Democratic Governor Orval Faubus, rioted against school integration...
...height of September's riots over the admission of nine Negro students to Central High, 1,000 paratroopers of the 101st Airborne Division were flown into Little Rock to keep order, and 10,000 Arkansas National Guardsmen were federalized to help them. Gradually, the paratroops were withdrawn and the majority of guardsmen demobilized. President Eisenhower's new order affects only 360 National Guard enlisted men and 40 officers still federalized and still on duty at Central High School to bar agitators and prevent incidents among the 2,000 students. Last week, as the last 400 guardsmen prepared...
...making a speech, Cordmen and Nevada's remaining anti-Cord Democrats fought for control of McCarran's party. The anti-Cords won a few skirmishes. But at convention's close, Cord's men were in command. They had won majority control of the Democratic state central committee; rammed through was a platform that clearly mirrored Cord's position on such issues as gambling (for relaxed laws), foreign aid (for less) and aid to education (for more). What most of the delegates wanted as they departed was that fast-rising New Boss Errett Lobban Cord would...
...socialist camp." Its "evolutionary views," said the Chinese with a hint that the Yugoslavs should get themselves new leaders, "harbor a wild attempt to induce surrender to capitalism [and] fit in exactly with what the imperialists and particularly the American imperialists need." A few days later, after a full Central Committee meeting in Moscow, Pravda warned that if Yugoslavia's rulers think the Soviet Union is taking advantage of its economic relations with their country, they can be "relieved of such 'exploitation.' " Soviet President Kliment Voroshilov canceled his scheduled state visit to Yugoslavia...
...relationship violated the precepts of both church and state, but it got the sanction of the Central Committee of the Italian Communist Party in closed session. Nilde Jotti became known everywhere, even in the pages of the party newspaper L'Unita, as "la Compagna" (the companion) of Togliatti. She traveled with Togliatti to Russia as his "secretary" while Stalin was alive. After Stalin's death, Georgy Malenkov publicly referred to her as Togliatti's "companion," and Anastas Mikoyan even introduced her as "Mrs. Togliatti...