Word: faubused
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Arkansas (26): Officially uncommitted, the delegates figure to follow Governor Orval Faubus onto the bandwagon, give 26 unit-rule votes to Stevenson...
ARKANSAS: Grade C Plus. "It is a problem that must be left to the people of the local districts to solve," said Governor Orval E. Faubus. Four of the state's 228 interracial school districts are integrating this fall, moving 49 Negro children in, along with about 2,170 whites. Little Rock (pop. 102,213) will integrate its 24% Negro student population in the high schools in 1957, the junior high schools in 1958. The University of Arkansas held its first integrated summer session this year...
...Faubus, onetime highway director for ex-Governor Sid McMath, was accused of attending Commonwealth College in the Ouachita Mountains. Commonwealth, which folded in 1940, was later branded a Communist-line school by the U.S. Department of Justice. Faubus admitted he had hitchhiked to the school from his Ozark home in 1935 to accept a proffered scholarship, spotted the Red danger signals after a few weeks, and hiked right back home. Cherry refused to let the matter drop, suggested Faubus was lying. Faubus fought back with a charge that Cherry was the tool of special business interests; he chortled happily when...
...candidates carried their race right to the finish line last week by appearing together on an election-eve television show, where they called for a large turnout of voters* and then resumed their quarrel over Commonwealth College. Next day the voters settled the argument. Faubus won by 6,600 votes, and Cherry became the second governor in Arkansas' history to be denied a second term...
...appeal got an enthusiastic response in Faubus' home county, Madison, where 108% of the eligible voters cast ballots...