Word: governor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hard Sell. In Birmingham, arrested for throwing a garbage can through the plate-glass window of a loan company, Arthur Bostian explained: "I was trying to draw attention to Governor Patterson's fight against loan sharks...
Running for Governor of Alabama last year, hard-jawed young (37) John Patterson could match racist slogans with the best of his opponents-and he had a record of action to back up his stump talk. As Alabama's attorney general, Patterson had helped get the N.A.A.C.P. banned from the state, taken legal action against a Tuskegee Negro boycott of downtown stores and against Montgomery Negroes when they boycotted city buses. On that basis, Patterson was elected Governor. But by last week, John Patterson had discovered to his embarrassment that the irresponsible promise held out during a campaign...
...Governor, Patterson had to raise money for his state: he went to New York, worked out financing details on a $60 million state bond issue with Lehman Bros., the famed Manhattan international banking house. Because the Lehmans are Jews, Governor Patterson's dealings aroused Alabama's anti-Semites. In June, Patterson spoke to the state legislature, expressed sentiments that seemed heresy to Alabama's rabid segregationists. Said he: "We cannot afford to crawl back into a hole as far as public education is concerned." On a trip to Washington, Patterson met Massachusetts' Senator John Kennedy, whom...
Paying a Little Back. Tijerina soon opened nine more schools, got strong support from Texas Governor Price Daniel, who appointed him to a top-level committee studying the state's educational needs. This spring, of dozens of appropriations urged by the committee, the only one passed by the frugal state legislature was a $1,300,000 bill to set up Tijerina-style schools throughout Texas. Reason: hundreds of five-year-olds have now had the Tijerina treatment, and less than 5% have flunked the first grade...
...operative reason was Governor Orval Faubus. Already the board had rejected a "solution" by Faubus that masked segregation with an illegal veneer of "integration" (TIME, Aug. 10). And the board was painfully mindful that last summer Faubus called a sudden session of the state legislature that stopped high schools from opening all year. Though the laws that turned this trick have since been declared unconstitutional, another special session might pass new ones...