Word: griffin
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Governor Marvin Griffin of Georgia last night charged that the Supreme Court's segregation decision represents a "palpable and flagrant" usurpation of states' rights and an attempt "to transmute socialistic theory into...
...Griffin has consistently been an out-spoken Southern leader in defiance of the Supreme Court's ruling against segregation in public schools...
...Marvin Griffin, Governor of Georgia and leading opponent of integration, will debate Jacob K. Javits, New York State Attorney General, on the issue of Southern segregation tonight in a Law School Forum...
...Khrush and Bulgy" (or K. and B.. as the British press has taken to calling them). Last week Britain's highest Roman Catholic prelate, Bernard Cardinal Griffin, in a pastoral letter read in all Roman Catholic churches in England and Wales, urged British Catholics to "act with restraint and dignity" during the Russians' visit. but to set aside a day of prayer for Christians persecuted behind the Iron Curtain...
...Griffin joined three other governers in January to plan a campaign to fight segregation. The group drafted a statement to stress states' rights and oppose integration. The report emphasized the legality of "interposition" of states between the Federal government and citizens and the employment of all legal means to carry out the fight. Griffiffin is a political protege of former Georgia Governer Herman Talmadge...