Word: governor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Governor Almond, who had bowed with courage and dignity in accepting token integration as inevitable (TIME, Feb. 9), staked his power on a new program drawn up by a committee headed by Lynchburg's Senator Mosby G. Perrow Jr. The key bill would return pupil placement to local school boards, subject to rules set by the state board of education. In the final vote, minutes after Appomattox' Moses waved the picture of Lee, the Almond forces carried the day by 21-18. The house passed the senate version...
...from the jail, telephoned the town marshal, who called Sheriff W. Osborne Moody. Quickly Moody called his deputies, alerted the highway patrol, the city police. Soon a huge posse fanned out from Poplarville into the countryside of heavy woods crisscrossed with streams. Within a few hours, Mississippi's Governor James P. Coleman called...
...from Segregation. In the solid granite Capitol in Raleigh, white-haired Governor Luther Hartwell Hodges, 61, businessman turned politician, totted up some headline statistics that proved the vigor behind his fondest dream: from January to March, industry built some $25,000,000 worth of new plants in North Carolina to add 5,600 new jobs (up 40% over 1958) paying $16 million a year (up 46%) to the state's payrolls. Showing its heels to its industry-hungry neighbors, North Carolina would almost certainly better its 1958 total of $253,000,000 in new-plant investment, tops...
...test after the Supreme Court's 1954 decision. But guided by able leadership, it did not panic. Instead it plotted minimum but legal compliance, went on to more important business-and in so doing soon put the crisis in reasonable perspective. Part of the credit was due to Governor Hodges and his sharp eye for business; part of it was due to the special heritage of the state that produced both Hodges and the kind of climate that he could operate...
...swept Virginia and South Carolina. "A vale of humility," the state was called, "between two mountains of conceit." In the Civil War it lost more soldiers than any other Confederate state; later it suffered its share of corrupt Reconstruction government until 1901. Heading the new leaders that year: "Education Governor" Charles B. Aycock, whose fiery crusade for schools got a new one built every day for ten years, gave education a permanent claim on a lion's share of state spending (76% of the 1959 budget...