Word: governors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This Infamous Program." In the convention hall, Southern oratory boomed out like cannon fire. In the front row, Oklahoma's doddering ex-Governor "Alfalfa Bill" Murray beamed his approval, proudly recalled that "I'm the man who introduced Jim Crow in Oklahoma." Race-baiting Gerald L. K. Smith turned up as a spectator under the pseudonym of S. Goodyear. A group of Mississippi students set up a chant: "To hell with Truman...
With shouts of triumph, the delegates endorsed a "Declaration of Principles." It condemned "this infamous and iniquitous program [of] equal access to all places of public accommodation for persons of all races, colors, creeds and national origin." Then they nominated South Carolina's Governor J. Strom Thurmond for President and Mississippi's Governor Fielding Wright for Vice President...
...witnesses at the second trial had been the governor of Ankara province, for whom Orbay had worked as private secretary. Day after his testimony the governor was found dead in his bed, shot through the temple by a gun found on a radiator twelve feet away. The official verdict was suicide...
Making his first official call on India's new Governor General Chakravarthi Rajagopalachari, Soviet Ambassador Kirill Novikov* addressed "Rajaji" as "Your Excellency." When the Governor General expressed surprise at his use of the title, Novikov explained:"We dropped the custom after the Revolution, but later felt that it had been a mistake."† "What?" Rajaji inquired sweetly. "The Revolution...
...year when the U.S. had the largest number of cases in its history), only 2,165 had been reported. Three states reported more than 50 new cases in a single week: North Carolina, 131; California, 92; Texas, 89. Five citizens of Newport News, Va. petitioned Virginia's Governor Tuck to close the border with North Carolina, where total cases in the outbreak had reached...