Word: governor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dressing Down the Governor...
President Eisenhower, concerned in press conference about 5,500 Navy children locked out or threatened at Norfolk, raised a question about the South that applied to Governor Almond: "Is the citizen, be he an official or be he a man that is working in civil life and outside the Government, ready to obey the laws of his state and his nation...
...mind, is a Rayburn protege, ranks high on the list of possible future Speakers. But he is in a dangerous political situation: with Arkansas due to lose two Representatives after the 1960 census. Mills cannot risk being gerrymandered out of Congress by a legislature under the segregationist thumb of Governor Orval Faubus. Mills therefore has recently taken a strong segregationist position, this year masterminded the disputed House seating of Little Rock Segregationist Dale Alford, won respect for his political footwork, lost points for the speakership...
British tommies scoured the mountains for EOKA terrorists, but last week, Britain's Cyprus Governor Sir Hugh Foot, grateful for the absence of incidents, declared in a broadcast: "In the past 21 days we have made good progress." If violence were abandoned "for good," promised Foot, Archbishop Makarios, exiled leader of the Greek Cypriots, could return to the island, and "we could finish with the emergency altogether." As a further gesture. Foot ordered 35 EOKA suspects released from detention camps "following a review of their cases...
...addition to those already existing in the big cities. By the end of 1960 new councils would be set up for the Congo's six provinces. Eventually, there would be a house of representatives and a senate to take over the duties now performed by the appointive Governor's Council in Léopoldville and the Colonial Council in Brussels. The government spoke earnestly of wanting to end racial discrimination, reforming the courts, extending education and social security. It also expressed the hope that once free, the Congo would keep ties with Belgium, like those that President...