Word: grayness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...devise strategy for evading the U.S. Supreme Court's school desegregation order, Virginia's Governor Thomas B. Stanley appointed a legislative commission headed by State Senator Garland Gray, a dependable cog in U.S. Senator Harry Byrd's Democratic Party organization. The Gray Commission hammered out a compromise designed to head off integration in communities that oppose it, and permit it in others. Even so, the plan was meeting unexpected opposition. Reason: quite apart from its cautious sabotage of the Supreme Court order, many Virginians thought the Gray plan might wreck their public-school system...
Green Light. Under fire were ramifications of the kickoff Gray proposal: a statewide referendum, scheduled for Jan. 9, on whether to hold a state constitutional convention. The convention, if authorized, could revise Section 141 of the Virginia constitution which, like similar laws in 44 other states, now prohibits the use of public funds for private schools. Revision would open the way to publicly financed "tuition grants," which would foot the bills for parents to send children to segregated private schools anywhere in the state. Corollary legislation under the Gray plan would allow school boards to assign pupils to public schools...
...businessman continued to be more hero than villain (although a little confused) in such novels as Cameron Hawley's Cash McCall and Sloan Wilson's The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit. It was perhaps significant of the relative absence of satire that so gentle a writer as J. P. Marquand emerged with the year's best American satirical novel. Sincerely, Willis Wayde, the derisive and sympathetic portrait of an eager-beaver businessman who so hotly wooed success that he unwittingly lost his decency during the courtship...
Died. Major General (ret.) Carl R. Gray, 66, onetime (1947-53) Veterans Administration chief, commander of allied railways in the European theater in World War II, vice president of the Chicago & Northwestern Railway (1946-48); of a circulatory ailment; in St. Paul, Minn...
Tillich hardly looks like a theologian. A stocky man with long steel-gray hair, clear-rimmed eye-glasses, and square features, he has an emphatically this-worldly air. He might be a lawyer, a businessman, or, with his soft but colorful accent, a German diplomat...