Word: howerton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their newly elected Moderator, 55-year-old Insuranceman Philip F. Howerton of Charlotte, N.C., the delegates defeated a scheme to use churches as schools to get around the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling against segregation in the public schools. They voted 288 to 124 against a well-organized minority drive to abolish the denomination's anti-segregation-minded Council on Christian Relations, then read into the record a ringing statement on race...
Under the headline I WILL VOTE FOR JOHN J. BELL, Record Publisher Jack Howerton ran his editorial in the absence of ailing Managing Editor Kenneth Towery, who won the Pulitzer Prize for his reporting of the scandal. Wrote Howerton, a longtime friend of the candidate: "John Bell is not personally without guilt in connection [with] profits from the sale of state lands to veterans . . . What he did, in my opinion, was at least morally wrong . . . It is common practice for at least 75% of all those representing us in Austin and in Washington to get their fingers into public appropriations...
...short, by Texan Howerton's generous code, there should be hope even for those who violate the eleventh commandment, i.e., "don't get caught...