Word: hardes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hard Sell. In Birmingham, arrested for throwing a garbage can through the plate-glass window of a loan company, Arthur Bostian explained: "I was trying to draw attention to Governor Patterson's fight against loan sharks...
...would like to see him go in the little town where I was reared [Abilene, Kans.] and pick up the evidence-and of course there are some still alive [who remember] when I was there, you know-and let them tell him the story of how hard I worked . . . He said in one of his conversations to Mr. Nixon: 'What do you know about work? You never worked.' Well, I can show him the evidence that...
...Howard Smith, assured him that Southern conservatives were lined up solidly behind the bill, Halleck found that some 20 of his own Republicans, all from industrial areas, were prepared to go over the hill, vote for one of the weaker bills. Moreover, the trend was against Halleck: his rasping, hard-driving methods had caused resentment among the G.O.P. rank and file, and he was in danger of losing even more Republicans...
Running for Governor of Alabama last year, hard-jawed young (37) John Patterson could match racist slogans with the best of his opponents-and he had a record of action to back up his stump talk. As Alabama's attorney general, Patterson had helped get the N.A.A.C.P. banned from the state, taken legal action against a Tuskegee Negro boycott of downtown stores and against Montgomery Negroes when they boycotted city buses. On that basis, Patterson was elected Governor. But by last week, John Patterson had discovered to his embarrassment that the irresponsible promise held out during a campaign...
...westward with its massed flags along Little Rock's 14th Street toward Central High School, shouting, cursing, and singing to the tune of Dixie: "In Arkansas, in the state of cotton/ Federal courts are good and rotten." At the intersection of 14th and Schiller Avenue the marchers came hard up against a thin line of Little Rock policemen. Four men of the mob rushed the line, trying to break through -and at that moment the clock seemed about to turn back two years to the race riots, incited by Arkansas' Governor Orval Faubus, that brought federal troops into...