Word: governor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Governor J. Lindsley Almond, who had pledged himself to fight to the end within the limits of the law, conceded last week that the battle was lost. The laws which had empowered him to shut down any school ordered to integrate by district courts were struck down by the Virginia Supreme Court as a violation of the state constitutional provision requiring Virginia to preserve an efficient system of free public schools. Simultaneously, a federal court ruled that the massive resistance statutes violated the "equal protection" clause of the Fourteenth Amendment...
...developments in Virginia are so encouraging, however. For the Virginia legislature, urged on by Governor Almond, repealed the compulsory-attendance statute and earmarked three million dollars in scholarship aid for any parents who wished to transfer their students to private schools. Such a provision, though clearly different from Faubus' attempt to convert the public school system into a private school establishment, is nevertheless reproachable. The Arkansas scheme was struck down as a clear attempt to evade the desegregation of the Little Rock public schools; presumably the Supreme Court, in a broad interpretation, could rule similarly in the Virginia case...
...part of his anti-inflation campaign, an executive order 1) creating an inter-agency Committee on Government Activities Affecting Prices and Costs and 2) naming his economic adviser, Raymond Saulnier, as its chairman. ¶ Accepted the resignation of his assistant for federal-state relations: Arizona's ex-Governor Howard Pyle, who is leaving to head the National Safety Council. ¶ Held a get-together with brothers Edgar (Tacoma lawyer), Earl (general manager of an Illinois newspaper chain), and Milton (president of Johns Hopkins University) to celebrate Edgar's 70th birthday. ¶ Boosted the U.S. exhibition that...
...record rains (5 in. in 24 hours in Columbus) swished over frozen ground, ran off into rivers like the Olentangy, the Kokosing, the Chagrin and Racoon Creek, swelled them until they overflowed to flood scores of cities and towns, batter buildings with massive hunks of ice. Ohio's Governor Mike Di Salle and Pennsylvania's David Lawrence declared emergencies. In Columbus Mrs. Betty Montgomery, 59, a wheelchair-bound invalid, sat stolidly at her window, watched the Scioto River rising up her wall. When flood water reached the first floor, she tied a string to the trigger...
...hour, U.S.-style press conference within the ancient Kremlin* walls, Mikoyan reported to the Soviet press on his trip. In high good humor, he told of visiting the dacha of Cleveland Industrialist Cyrus Eaton, and of a luncheon at which he had pressed "my old friend" former Governor Averell Harriman to revisit Moscow now that Nelson Rockefeller had freed him to travel. Mikoyan paid tribute to American women -"they were very nice to us; they cannot hide their feelings as well as a man" -and recalled with evident relish his luncheon with those archvillains of Communist mythology, the bankers...