Word: defendents
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
...pants could go to. had left when he found out what kind of place it was. In 1954, the year of revulsion against McCarthyism. the incident in liberal-reaching Arkansas became a Faubus asset. Certified liberals, including Arkansas' segregationist Senator William Fulbright, rushed to Faubus' side to defend him against Cherry's "smear.'' Faubus upset Governor Cherry...
...including 106-mm. recoilless rifles, to Jordan. And determined not to let Syria's new pro-Russian regime lull everyone to sleep with sweet talk, Washington did what it could to make plain its concern about Syria (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). This was a clear declaration of intent to defend vital U.S. interests in the Mideast, but so far the initiative there remained with the U.S.S.R...
...board, this modification will be only frilly window dressing. There will be more power over the financial affairs of locals from international headquarters, i.e., Jimmy Hoffa. In deference to the A.F.L.-C.I.O. leadership, Hoffa says that he will rid himself of all his private business interests. But he will defend the right of an accused union official to cringe behind the Fifth Amendment, as Dave Beck did. Far more important is Hoffa's dream of establishing what he calls a "loose-knit council" of all the nation's transportation unions "to exchange ideas." How he would handle this...
...defense attorney, Abel asked a U.S. marshal to contact "Abt." The only Lawyer Abt in the Manhattan telephone directory is John J. Abt, 53, longtime counsel for Communists. Said Abt: "I know nothing about him or the case. I don't see how I would have time to defend...