Word: courting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...political joke," would have sent hundreds of Negro students to Hall, the high school located in the well-to-do Pulaski Heights area that has consistently voted against Faubus. But it would also have left Central a segregated school. Because this would clearly have violated the federal court order to deny no citizen entrance to a public school because of color, Faubus could hardly have expected the school board to take up his suggestion. But its rejection by the school board, as Faubus might also have foreseen, could only add to the troubles that face Little Rock as it prepares...
...light of the traditional racial segregation long practiced and still mightily supported in Methodist churches in the United States, can you be relied upon to carry through the Supreme Court decisions recently made on this topic? Can you serve with Negroes in your Cabinet...
...POWERS for enforcement will speed agency's actions against price discrimination, mergers, etc. Under new law, FTC orders against Clayton Act violations are binding within 60 days after issuance, unless appealed to courts. Old system required advance court approval of FTC orders...
Anne Marie Louise d'Orleans, Duchess of Montpensier, Chatellerault and St. Fargeau, Sovereign of Dombes, Princess of Joinville and Laroche-sur-Yon. Dauphine of Auvergne, and Fille de France, was something of a royal office joke. But since the office was the 17th century French court-Louis XIII was her uncle, Louis XIV her first cousin-the lady left footnotes in the sands of time. Biographer V. (for Victoria Mary) Sackville-West, 67, has written a witty, informal, entertaining book about the bedeviled woman who was known not by her titles, but with simple Bourbon haughtiness as plain Mademoiselle...
...latter-day Joan of Arc in the Fronde, a kind of comic-opera civil war of the disgruntled French nobility, Mademoiselle achieved only the boring martyrdom of five years' rural banishment from the Paris she loved. After 4-3 years of stalwart virginity in the most lascivious court in Europe, she fell passionately in love with a toy-soldier-sized captain in the king's guards, one Count de Lauzun, who was half a dozen years and a foot or so her junior. She wooed him ardently. For three happy days, Louis XIV gave his grudging consent...