Word: faubused
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Year: Orval E. Faubus of Arkansas-the only man to stem the black tide...
THREE hours after the U.S. District Court had issued an injunction against him, Arkansas' Governor Orval Eugene Faubus appeared on a state television network and, among other matters, delivered a lecture on magazine journalism. First he "invited" his audience to read the Sept. 20 issue of U.S. News & World Report, which carried a let-him-talk. question-and-answer interview with Faubus. Then he said: "The obviously prejudiced and false reports in TIME and Newsweek will not help the situation...
...Faubus named and misnamed a group of Arkansas "integrationists"' who "colored, slanted and falsified reports in TIME and Newsweek and in other publications." Concluded he of his fellow Arkansans: "They have a right to their viewpoint, but they and others have bent every effort to contact all newsmen from out of the state and to indoctrinate them with a biased and prejudiced viewpoint toward...
...whole, factual story on Little Rock consist only of interviewing Orval Faubus, taking his worn-thin word at its face value, and stopping there? TIME had such an interview. But TIME correspondents also interviewed Arkansas integrationists and Arkansas segregationists. They also interviewed Orval Faubus' father, his cousins and his friends in the Ozark hills, along with his political cronies and his political enemies. They also interviewed Little Rock city and school authorities. Justice Department officials in Washington. U.S. District Judge Ronald Davies. pool-hall characters standing around Little Rock's Central High School, and the Negro children kept...
...will take a long time to settle down," she cried. "You can't have a strong country with a nitwit like that for President." And Harry S. Truman of Independence, Mo. told friends: "If this had happened when I was in the White House, I would have had Faubus in Washington in 24 hours." Added his wife: "He would, too. It might not have been the right thing to do, but he would have done something...