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...Faubus threw himself behind Sid McMath's campaign for governor, delivered Madison County. McMath named him to the highway commission (an unsalaried job), made him a $5,000-a-year administrative assistant after he delivered the hill country again in 1950, and after Faubus complained: "I'm broke. I need a payin' job." A McMath aide recalls the first time he saw Faubus: "He came down here in a $10 suit that ended somewhere north of his socks. He was chewing a matchstick, and I hardly ever saw him after that without a matchstick or a straw...
...When Faubus decided to move up in real politics, he got a weird political break. In 1954 he filed for the Democratic nomination for governor (means election in Arkansas) and found himself facing a Communist-association charge, from Governor Francis A. Cherry, who knew about those old days at Commonwealth College. Faubus panicked, lied; he declared publicly that he had never gone to the school. When Cherry proved it, Faubus admitted everything, said he went there because it was the only school a poor boy with one pair of pants could go to. had left when he found out what...
...Orval Faubus was changing. No longer a matchstick chewer. no longer in pants that ended north of his socks, he became a well-dressed fellow, took to dark suits with a white handkerchief sticking out of the breast pocket. He still spouted cliches ("A stitch in time . . ."; "An ounce of prevention . . .") and he still called the militia the me-lish-ee. but he talked big about running for a third term (which no Arkansas governor has had since 1905) and even acted as if he would like to move into bigger political hills. Said one observer of Orval Faubus...
...legal precedents that apply to Orval Faubus v. the U.S. reach all the way back to a September night during the Revolutionary War when a Connecticut fisherman named Gideon Olmstead, two seamen and a boy, imprisoned aboard the British sloop Active, rose up and overpowered 14 British sailormen and captured the ship for the 13 states. Couple of days later the heroes were themselves chased, caught and captured, not by the British but by the armed brig Convention, in the service of Pennsylvania. They were hauled into the port of Philadelphia, where the admiralty court ordered the vessel sold...
Arkansas' Governor Faubus appears to have gone even farther than Pennsylvania's embattled Governor Snyder in that he appears, personally, to be creating conditions in which he might violate the law. By disposing state militiamen around his mansion to prevent serving of a legal processor warrant, he will be liable (if such a warrant is issued) to punishment of a fine not exceeding $300 and/or one year's imprisonment...