Word: faubus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...orders of the federal courts will not be obstructed by me." wrote Orval Faubus, "and ... I am prepared, as I have always been, to assume full responsibility for maintaining law and order in Little Rock." The words "by me" would give Faubus an out to let someone else do the obstructing, and everybody knew how he had "maintained law and order" before. Burned once by the conference with Faubus at Newport (TIME, Sept. 23), Ike declared the whole statement unsatisfactory, called off the negotiations...
Next day, and the day after that, Faubus resolved any doubts that might have lingered in his favor. "Doubletalk" was his word for the efforts of the President and the Southern governors to make peace. "I write my statements from this end of the line. They can write theirs from that end," he said. "I am standing...
...Benito, Texas, veteran of years of church service at Waco, Texas and at the famous St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Richmond (where Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee worshiped during the Civil War), devoted breakfast time next day to a talk with Governor Orval Faubus. He got what he thought was a promise of support for constructive mediation. Afterwards the bishop got a letter from Faubus replete with subtly inflammatory Faubus phrases (e.g., "to place the blame it would be necessary to reach far beyond the borders of this state"). The bishop did get unequivocal support from...
Through the turmoil. Harry Ashmore's telephone shrilled around the clock with threatening calls from agitators, who were fired by Governor Faubus' cry that Editor Ashmore was the worst of all possible culprits, "an ardent integrationist." Little Rock's white-supremacist Capital Citizens' Council (annual dues: $5) dubbed Ashmore "Public Enemy No. i." Eagerly abetted by some less scrupulous competitors, a statewide boycott against "that nigger-lovin' paper" had cost the 137-year-old Gazette (circ. 99,573) 3,000 subscribers by week...
...Heiskell, 84-year-old president of the sturdily Democratic Gazette, Editor Ashmore emphasized from the day of the Supreme Court's school-integration ruling in 1954 that there could be "no choice between compliance and defiance." Far from urging integration, the Gazette, which had helped elect Orval Faubus in two gubernatorial campaigns, backed his efforts to postpone desegregation by "moderate," legal means. But when Faubus switched last month from legalistic buck-passing to outright defiance, Harry Ashmore's conscience-pricking editorials (more than 40 so far) repeatedly warned of the tragic consequences. When the mobs moved into...