Word: commissioner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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¶ Provide, through the U.S. Office of Education, technical guidance, limited subsidies, and other aid for schools wrestling with integration problems. ¶ Authorize federal operation of integrated schools for servicemen's children when legal wrangling over segregation closes any schools in areas heavily populated by service people. ¶ Grant...
In Richmond. Governor Almond was careful to placate Senator Harry Flood Byrd's entrenched massive-resistance leaders. But he moved purposefully to consolidate the new coalition of moderates who helped him hold the line against the Byrdmen's drive for some last, Faubus-style gesture of defiance. "I...
Glazanov, an animated young man who likens himself to a combination of icon painter and El Greco, claims no political theories. Nevertheless, political furies have forced him into hiding and denied him means of support. Fortunately, foreign ambassadors patronize him, commission him to do portraits of their families. While such...
When John Convey, a Canadian Department of Mines expert in the field, first heard of the nuclear scheme, he scoffed at it as "something of a Jules Verne story." Now he sees it as "a new type of mining." Indications last week were that the project is progressing. At the...
¶ After screening 40 football coaches for the job vacated by retiring Earl Blaik. Army went to its own practice field for his successor: Dale Hall. 34, for the past three seasons defensive backfield coach under Blaik. Hall, whose bespectacled, scholarly look belies his record as an all-round athlete...