Word: centralize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Faubus did speculate, however, on what the legislature could do to deal with the presence of federal troops and the integration of Central High School. Among the possibilities mentioned were abolition of the public school system and withholding of state funds from integrated schools...
Later yesterday, Faubus said he would favor the closing of Central High School "if it resulted in the return of the school to lawful state authorities...
...Faubus' father, his cousins and his friends in the Ozark hills, along with his political cronies and his political enemies. They also interviewed Little Rock city and school authorities. Justice Department officials in Washington. U.S. District Judge Ronald Davies. pool-hall characters standing around Little Rock's Central High School, and the Negro children kept out of school. In short, they interviewed everyone necessary for the whole, factual story on what Orval wrought-not merely a politely phrased set of questions and answers...
Bess Truman expressed a popular sentiment: in frustration at the continued defiance of the U.S. Government by Arkansas' Democratic Governor Orval Eugene Faubus, the cry echoed across the land for the Eisenhower Administration to "do something." But the emotional swelling ignored a central point: the Administration was indeed doing something -as it should be done. It was keeping the issue of Little Rock integration off the political stump and in the courts of the U.S. There last week Orval Faubus lost the showdown...
...process of justice was allowed to take its orderly course, and it ended with Orval Faubus withdrawing his militiamen from Little Rock's Central High School. That done, the President of the U.S. could throw the power of moral suasion into achieving peaceful integration in Little Rock. "I am confident," said President Eisenhower, "that they [the people of Little Rock] will vigorously oppose any violence by extremists . . . I am confident that the citizens of the city of Little Rock and the State of Arkansas will welcome this opportunity to demonstrate that in their city and in their state, proper...