Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Some people say it's like a dream-it can't be happening here," mused Presbyterian Minister Dunbar H. Ogden Jr., president of the Greater Little Rock Ministerial Association, as he contemplated the fate that had befallen his city. "But I haven't felt like that. This is real...
...Inevitable Governor. It was small wonder that many of the ordinary citizens of Little Rock thought of their situation as a dream-a nightmare-in which they had played no part. But Presbyterian Ogden pointed up the meaning for ordinary citizens and would-be extremists alike. "This had to happen someplace in the South," said he. "It was inevitable that there was going to be a plan, worked out, approved and accepted, for gradual integration. It was inevitable that somewhere a governor, under pressure of extreme segregationists, was going to stop integration by calling out the National Guard...
Last week Stevenson took painful pains to scotch the idea. Said he: "I am not a candidate; I will not be a candidate, and I don't want the nomination." The tone was familiar. There was once a candidate who said, "I do not dream myself fit for the job-temperamentally, mentally or physically. And I ask therefore that you all abide by my wishes not to nominate me." This was Adlai Stevenson, speaking to his Illinois delegation six days before he accepted his first Democratic presidential nomination...
...tables, President Wilde found hirings up 70%, turnover down 20%. And from Architect Bunshaft, already applying the hard-won discoveries on half a dozen even newer buildings, there was a satisfied, "I think this is the best job we've done. The big thrill is to see a dream happen...
...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 enormous thumbscrew on the U.S. economy, only he can tell...