Word: faubusism
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...state on projects such as the Arkansas River development program. But Moderate Hays, who is also president of the 9,000,000-member Southern Baptist Convention, attempted in addition to smooth the inevitable course of integration; in mid-1957 he brought President Eisenhower and Arkansas' Governor Orval Faubus together at Newport, R.I. in an attempt to forestall the Little Rock crisis. Among Little Rock white supremacists, Brooks Hays, 60, has been unpopular ever since. Last week they kicked him out of Congress with a write-in campaign covertly sponsored by Orval Faubus...
Fearless, Fabulous Faubus...
...Harlem last week, New York's Governor Averell Harriman was banking on Harry Truman in a desperate effort to get back some of the votes Harriman knew Orval Faubus was costing him. If Truman had been President, said Ave to the Harlem audience, he would have sent the paratroops to Little Rock in 24 hours rather than waiting three weeks as Republican Eisenhower did. "Is that right, Mr. President?" demanded Ave in one of those of-course lines. But Truman threw away the script, ducked behind the claim that he "wouldn't have had all this trouble." Said...
White Only. The segregationists' sun shone brightest last week on the porticoed facade of a hand-me-down structure built 50 years ago as a Methodist orphanage, later used as a graduate center for the University of Arkansas, now bought (by a wealthy Faubus backer, for $50,900) and relabeled: Senior High School-Little Rock Private School Corp. Newly titled School Superintendent W. C. Brashears (a former elementary school principal) announced a solid-sounding curriculum ("four years" of English, Arkansas and American history, applied mathematics, algebra, chemistry, physics, etc.), by week's end had registered 241 seniors...
Virginia's Governor J. Lindsay Almond Jr., who has locked out three times as many schoolchildren (some 13,000) as the redoubtable Faubus, laid it on thick to a state P.T.A. meeting in Richmond: "I say to you in profound and pleading reverence that I fight to preserve the public school system." He got a whoop-and-holler ovation, but two days later, with the floor packed by late-arriving delegates from the state's more moderate north, a resolution to support massive resistance drew a 557-557 tie, and this was chalked up as a defeat. Then...