Word: furthered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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By calling out the National Guard against school integration in Little Rock (TIME, Sept. 16), Faubus meant only to further his personal political ambitions. But the slightly sophisticated hillbilly from near Greasy Creek had, in fact, set off a chain reaction that quickly went beyond his control; his manufactured crisis...
What had happened? Little Rock soon got an answer-of sorts. At 10:05 p.m. Arkansas' Democratic Governor Orval Faubus, a backwoods politician turned Dapper Dan (see box), marched into the studio of station KTHV for a television appearance he had scheduled within the hour. Cried Faubus: "Now that...
The students were already in school when two Negro women wandered past, unwisely stopped to see what was going on. Fat, fiftyish Madge Lucas, one of the noisiest of the whites, lumbered over to the Negro women, shouted, "Who's going to help me take these niggers for a...
The Warning. Dulles and Henderson began to make their point for all the world to hear. State issued a statement that Henderson had found, in his talks with the leaders of Iraq, Jordan, Turkey and Lebanon, a unanimous "deep concern lest Syria should become a base for further threatening the...
When he showed his baggy-eyed cine-mobster's face on TV (TIME, Aug. 19) as a 140-time Fifth Amendment pleader before the Senate labor rackets investigating committee, arrogant, carefully tailored Johnny Dio, 43, seemed to have made crime pay pretty well: society had not managed to pin...