Word: faubus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Faubus attorneys seemed hardly to care what happened to the motions. Within minutes after young, nervous Faubus Lawyer Kay Matthews began a rambling argument for the disqualification motion, Little Rock School Superintendent Virgil Blossom became the first-but by no ' means the last-spectator to fall sound asleep. Again, while addressing himself to another motion, Faubus Lawyer Walter Pope said his whole argument was in his brief, and someone had once told him that judges could read. Smiled Ronald Davies: "Yes, I am one of the judges who can read." Moments later the Faubusinspired motions were quietly and firmly...
That was enough for the Faubus lawyers. Chief Counsel Tom Harper, smiling and benign, stepped to the bar and began reading from scribbled notes: "The position of the respondent, Governor Faubus and his military officers, must be firm, unequivocal, unalterable: that the governor of the State of Arkansas cannot and will not concede that the U.S. in this court or anywhere else can question his discretion and judgment . . ." Harper left one door open for retreat: "This is not to say that the respondents will not comply until they can be set aside, with orders, even though they may be made...
Harper asked if the Faubus lawyers might be excused from the hearings. Just as politely Judge Davies granted the request. The lawyers walked...
...Evidence." By leaving the rest of the hearing uncontested, the Faubus lawyers foreclosed themselves from hope of successful appeal from the facts and the evidence presented after the walkout. As for the U.S., which had nearly 200 witnesses on call, the case was simplified by the Faubus default. Result: only eight witnesses were called...
...integration in Little Rock had been "thwarted by the governor of Arkansas by the use of National Guard troops. It is equally demonstrable from the testimony here today that there would have been no violence in carrying out the plan of integration." The preliminary injunction was therefore issued, ordering Faubus and his National Guard officers not to interfere with integration. Snapped Judge Ronald Davies: "Stand in recess," and left the bench...