Word: equality
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...speech sponsored by the Sons of the American Revolution, Texas' Democratic Senator Lyndon Johnson had gone out of his way to speak against "the hotheads on both sides," admitted that "we're a little late in our section in recognizing that all men are created equal." If Faubus thought Johnson's remarks were aimed at him, he took the fact blandly; indeed, before he left he observed that Lyndon would make a fine President. He was also unruffled when a telephoned bomb threat set cops to swarming around the auditorium: "I was 300 days in combat with...
...rooms at the hotel. On the third day U.S. District Judge Taylor Wines, on a petition filed by Bridges, gave his ruling: "The right to marry is the right of the individual, not the race . . . If we are to take the proposition that all men are born free and equal seriously, then we can't very well ignore the implications." After a brief wedding a few minutes later, Bridges allowed cordially: "You can't hold a law that was established way back around 1860 against the people of today...
...will be "no restrictions as to sex," Shenefield said. In a three hour meeting the administrative staff of WHRB approved by a two-thirds majority an amendment to the by-laws of the Harvard Radio Broadcasting Co. Inc., which would provide "voting rights and eligibility for executive positions on equal terms for Harvard and Radcliffe members...
Pakistan's General Mohammed Ayub Khan. No leader of the pro-Western Asiatic nations has a mass following equal to that of our President...
...President Eisenhower's assistant, step up to the M.I.T. board chairmanship. Early this year the president-elect wrote: "We in America have been curiously plagued by the fear of an intellectual elite. We have tended to distrust intellectual achievements that are not to be had by everyone on equal terms. There has been too little pride and understanding among Americans of the quality of excellence." Julius Stratton, a reserved man who wears a banker's conservative suits and would be at a loss dealing with football-frenzied alumni at some other schools, seems well suited to cultivate M.I.T...