Word: centralize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that moment, one day last week, the governor of Arkansas had good reason to be suffering from, as he put it, a "sore stomach." Arkansas National Guardsmen were deployed around his salmon-pink executive mansion, warding off all. Other militiamen surrounded Little Rock's Central High School, ready to defend it to the death against Negro children trying to attend classes. And even as Governor Faubus defied his doctor's orders, the shock waves of his defiance of the U.S. Government crashed through the South, the nation and the world...
Knight's round was the second half of a double barrel. Earlier, two pro-Knight officers of the G.O.P. State Central Committee sent California Republicans a letter bemoaning "impending Republican Party suicide," suggesting that Bill Knowland remove himself as a gubernatorial possibility. Knowland "cannot possibly muster the broad popular support which is necessary to win the governorship," the letter said, and if he insists on a knockdown, drag-out primary with Knight, "the resultant Democratic swing well might take not only the governorship but the other major constitutional posts, the U.S. Senatorship, the majority of the Congressional delegation...
...government's draft law did not say so, the territories would probably be so carved that Europeans would control two assemblies, and Moslems the other four. After a two-year cooling-off period, during which France would seek to end the fighting, the territorial assemblies could establish a central federal assembly, which would have the power to appeal for more autonomy, and to seek to renegotiate France's right to retain control of Algeria's defense, foreign relations, and finances...
...asbestos shed in the backyard of the building where Indonesia had proclaimed its independence twelve years ago, some 150 leaders of the chaotic and divided young republic met last week to see if they could keep their independence and still remain a nation. Said Prime Minister Djuanda: "The central government does not wish to dictate anything. Let's not find faults. Let's discuss our problems with open hearts, and a brotherly manner...
...tribute to Djuanda's personal political stature, as well as to his powers of persuasion, that the conference convened at all. Among those assembled were the rebellious army colonels who in recent months have staged a series of bloodless revolts in Sumatra, Borneo and East Indonesia against the central government and President Sukarno's plans for introducing "guided democracy" into Indonesia. The young colonels, headed by fair-skinned, 35-year-old Lieut. Colonel Ventje Sumual, put their faith in the one Indonesian whose prestige is at all equal to Sukarno's: Mohammed Hatta. Hatta...