Word: dabney
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only within the conceptual framework of two parallel societies, one black, the other white. When the concept of segregation itself was challenged, the Southern liberals drew back in alarm. Who is a Southern liberal? The well-known names of Harry Ashmore, Hodding Carter, Jonathan Daniels, Mark Ethridge and Virginius Dabney immediately come to mind...
...announced a grant (about $75,000) to set up the non-profit Southern Education Reporting Service. Staffed by working newsmen, the news service, with headquarters in Nashville, will provide free factual news to editors, public officials, school administrators, etc., describing the shift from segregated to nonsegregated schools. Said Virginius Dabney, editor of the Richmond Times-Dispatch and chairman of the Southern Education Reporting Service: "School administrators . . . in each of the 17 states affected will stand to benefit by the experience of [other] school administrators [reported] on a strictly factual, non-partisan basis...
Yearbook President William K. Dabney '55 said the delay was due in part to the fact that the book was 70 pages longer than expected. Much of the binding work, he said, had to be done by hand...
...publicize a new history book, Publishers Grosset & Dunlap asked a panel of 28 historians, educators and journalists (including Authors Stuart Chase and Raymond Moley, Journalists Ernest K. Lindley and Virginius Dabney) to rate the 100 most significant events in history. First place: Columbus' discovery of America. Second: Gutenberg's development of movable type. Eleven events tied for third place. Tied for fourth place: U.S. Constitution takes effect, ether makes surgery painless, X ray discovered, Wright brothers' plane flies, Jesus Christ is crucified...
...companies (Canadian Delhi and Delhi), has not even set foot in many of their offices. (His only advice to Henry Holt was that it should publish a book on gin rummy.) He leaves all the details to a crack team of young financial brains headed by his sons John Dabney, 32, and Clint Jr., 30, along with James H. Clark, 45, a former executive in a Chicago firm of management consultants. Around Dallas, they are known as "Clint's Whiz Kids...