Word: centrals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Milton Eisenhower took his debutante daughter with him on his Central American tour. Who paid...
...recalling the follies of appeasement and stated that there would be no repeat of Munich in the present crisis. But the coastal islands three miles off the mainland cannot be compared in strategic or moral importance to what in 1938 was the most democratic and strongest free nation in Central Europe. Military experts have testified that Matsu and besieged Quemoy are not important to the defense of Formosa, which lies about 100 miles further east. They possess significant military value only as offensive bridgeheads...
...transformation wrought in the Democratic Party by Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal and to recreate something like the Democratic Party of the twenties." Today's Democratic leaders "forget that the Democratic Party has been nationally successful only as a great coalition in which intellectuals play a central role," forget also that "the great natural resource of the Democratic Party is brains...
...Asians and Arabs and its 25,000 Europeans (chiefly British and Greek) comprise only 1.5% of the territory's population of 8,800,000, the British wisely made no attempt to maintain absolute white supremacy as European settlers had tried to do in neighboring Kenya and the Central African Federation. Instead, in a bid for racial harmony, the British allotted each constituency three council seats, one for each of the three major racial groups -Asian, European and African. Every voter, regardless of his color, voted for his choice in all three seats...
...integrationist. Editor Ashmore won a 1958 Pulitzer Prize for his protests against the Little Rock mob and the way it was goaded into lawlessness by Governor Orval Faubus. "The people of Little Rock," he wrote a year ago, "will not allow a tiny, militant minority to take over Central High School and run it under mob rule." Gazette circulation dropped from 99,573 to 88,068, while the pro-Faubus Arkansas Democrat took up the slack. Ashmore refused to be bullied, and an attempted advertising boycott failed...