Word: gaed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Faubus had thus staked his political future on his claim that there would be violence in Little Rock. Almost single-handed he had created the reality of violence from its myth. After withdrawing his National Guard, he had taken off for the Southern Governors' Conference at Sea Island, Ga., stopping on the way to see the Georgia-Texas football game at Atlanta. ("He's really lapping up the glory," said one of his fellow governors. "There were 33,000 people at the game, and every time they cheered a play, Faubus stood up and bowed.") The next night...
...mailed his four Air Medals and six battle stars to the President for distribution among the soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division. In Columbia, S.C., Governor George Bell Timmerman Jr. resigned his commission in the U.S. Naval Reserve so that he could not be called into service. In Albany, Ga., persons unknown set fire to two buildings on the campus of the Albany State College (for Negroes), caused an estimated $300,000 in damages...
Faubus arrives by plane from Southern Governors Conference at Sea Island, Ga., and said "I feel like Gen. MacArthur. I feel relieved." He said state authority would have settled the city's integration problem "without violence" it the president had left the "law and order...
...ISLAND, GA.--Gov. Luther P. Hodges of North Carolina proposed that Southern Governors Conference suggest to President Eisenhower that maintenance of law and order in Arkansas is primary responsibility of Gov. Orval Faubus. Gov. Frank clement of Tennessee proposed a committee of seven governors meet with Eisenhower to seek solution to integration problems which would avoid use of federal troops...
Lithonia, Ga...