Word: elections
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...There's a new law of the land today on the integration problems of public schools," proclaimed Columnist David Lawrence, a Virginia Democrat. "Token integration now has become possible on a constitutional basis everywhere." Alabama's Lieutenant Governor-elect Albert Boutwell, one of the leading advocates of the law, talked of calling a South-wide conference to spread his doctrine. But what the Supreme Court had actually done was grant Alabama the right that it or any other state is entitled to: the presumption of good faith until otherwise proved. When and if Alabama demonstrates by its application...
...marble as remote from today's Mexico as an igloo, despite murals by the famed Big Four of Mexican art: Rivera, Siqueiros, Orozco and Tamayo. As López Mateos entered, the 3,000 guests, including U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, stood and cheered the President-elect's march to the stage...
...better friend of U.S. busi ness interests. When Madero was killed, Zapata and Pancho Villa joined with Venustiano Carranza in a new revolt. In Washington Woodrow Wilson realized Huerta could not maintain stability and switched U.S. support to Carranza, saying. "I intend to teach the South American republics to elect good men." A U.S. fleet invaded Veracruz in 1914; Carranza won. but repudiated the U.S. intervention. Nevertheless, two years later, Wilson ordered General John J. ("Black Jack") Pershing into Mexico on a fruitless pursuit of Pancho Villa after Villa had raided Columbus, N.Mex...
...high politicos talked 2-½hours. Said Johnson: "I came to listen and learn as a friend, and I have done both." He reported that he had invited the President-elect to visit his LBJ ranch in Texas, and that Lopez Mateos had accepted, although the date was left open. What else they discussed was their secret-but they planned to meet several more times before López Mateos headed back to Mexico City to prepare for his Dec. 1 inauguration...
Bagged for a TV interview in Rio, New York's vacationing Governor-elect Nelson Rockefeller gamely plowed through a new, unsought role: stooge on an eggbeater spiel. Following some 20 minutes of political chitchat, sultry Interviewer Lidia Matos casually stuck an appliance in Rocky's grip, asked the key question: What is it? An egg beater, answered Rockefeller, brightly but warily. "You're right," warbled Saleswoman Matos, beaming into the camera. "It's the lightest, most efficient egg beater made in Brazil...