Word: griffin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...turning many a Dixie radical red with frustration. North Carolina's Luther Hodges was chairman of the 1957 Southern Governors Conference, engineered the election of Florida's LeRoy Collins as his successor -even though a nominating committee had already settled on Georgia's racist Marvin Griffin. Collins, in turn, was succeeded last year as chairman of the Southern Regional Education Board by Hodges. Last week Hodges worked another ploy. Planning their Jefferson-Jackson Day Dinner in Raleigh, North Carolina Democrats planned to invite as main speaker a tub-thumping segregationist, possibly Georgia's Senator Herman Talmadge...
...time had arrived when we had to say something." Other Southern church groups have spoken out against segregation more or less directly, but the Georgia statement is far the firmest and the most widely based. Specifically, the Georgia ministers flatly condemned the oft-repeated threat by Governor Marvin Griffin et al. to abolish the public school system in order to circumvent the Supreme Court's anti-segregation decision...
...four governors-North Carolina's Luther Hodges, Florida's LeRoy Collins, Maryland's Republican Theodore Roosevelt McKeldin, Tennessee's Frank Clement-drove up to the west side entrance of the White House to keep their appointment. (Missing: Georgia's Faubus-like Governor Marvin Griffin, who backed out at the last minute.) Their historic mission was to try to arrange with the President terms for the withdrawal of the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division from Little Rock. Specifically, they proposed that 1) Faubus make a formal declaration that he would now assume responsibility...
...governors typified the dilemma in which Orval Faubus had placed the South. Only one, Georgia's Marvin Griffin, was a rabble-rouser of the Faubus stripe. The four others, Florida's LeRoy Collins, Tennessee's Frank Clement, North Carolina's Luther Hodges and Maryland's Theodore Roosevelt McKeldin, were moderates. But the emotional turmoil of the South had forced Collins, Clement and Hodges toward the side of Demagogue Faubus, even though most of them privately blamed him for the trouble. In Washington, they hoped to find a way to get federal troops out of Little...
...state that traditionally frowns on three terms for a governor. He needed a dramatic issue, and he needed the red-neck votes of segregationist eastern Arkansas. Beyond that, there were indications that Faubus was being used by segregationist politicians in the South. From Georgia's raucous Governor Marvin Griffin, who spoke at a Little Rock dinner last month, came loud praise for the Arkansas "preservator of the peace."- At almost the very moment that Griffin used that pretentious solecism, Faubus was using exactly the same word to describe himself...