Word: eastern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Arkansas has a strong tradition against a third term for a governor. Moreover, his popularity was slipping: he had raised taxes, alienated his liberal followers by granting rate increases to railroads and utilities. He needed new support and he needed it badly. His solution: to win votes in conservative eastern Arkansas by setting himself up as a segregationist hero...
Texas. After a promising start, the pace of integration has slowed down. Of 800-odd school districts with both white and Negro children, 122 have at least partly integrated, and so have several state-supported colleges. But in eastern Texas, where 90% of the Negro schoolchildren live, segregation fences are as high and unscalable as ever. The segregationist camp showed its power this year when the state legislature passed a law under which any school district that integrates without first holding a local referendum loses its share of state school funds. With that law on the books, no more white...
...elaborately publicized succession, President Eisenhower proclaimed U.S. "anxiety" over the Syrian situation, U.S. fleet units churned up a show of force in Eastern Mediterranean waters, and U.S. Air Force C124 Globemasters wheeled over Amman in a display delivery of U.S. 106-mm. antitank rifles to Jordan's army. Instead of persuading other Arab countries that the Arab nationalists of Syria were a threat to them, the U.S. display offended them and drove Syria's neighbors to proclaim their solidarity with their Arab brothers. Within 24 hours every U.S. ally in the Arab world had rallied to Syria...
...Eastern Orthodox 2,386,945 2,598,055 Old Catholic...
...Britain, Spain, Italy, France, Germany, Eastern Europe, Latin America...