Word: lanham
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When U.S. correspondents in Paris checked SHAPE for Eisenhower's reaction, all they got at first was a no comment from SHAPE press officers. A public relations colonel, told about Lodge's conference, snapped: "So what?" But later Sunday night, Brigadier General Charles T. Lanham, SHAPE public information officer, said that there might be some comment on Monday. Said another officer close to Eisenhower: "Sometimes silence is more eloquent than any statement...
...state of Georgia has never tried to lynch any Negro," wrathfully broke in Congressman Henderson Lanham of Rome, Ga., who was presiding. (He was certainly right about the Scottsboro boys, whom no one had tried to lynch-and besides, the Scottsboro case took place in Alabama, not Georgia...
...there is any state where a Negro gets a fair deal in court," Lanham declaimed, "it is in the state of Georgia and any statement to the contrary is absolutely false." Negroes had no rights in Georgia, Patterson insisted. "That's another lie," said Lanham...
...that, bald, 62-year-old Congressman Lanham leaped to his feet. "Damn son of a bitch!" he shouted. "Black son of a bitch!" With fists clenched, he raced around the committee table. Bespectacled, 59-year-old Attorney Patterson held to his witness seat. Lanham broke past two attendants before a pair of Capitol policemen managed to grab him. Subdued, Congressman Lanham returned to his place, abruptly adjourned the hearing...
...units at Harvard Way Extension marked for dismantling were given to the University under the MacGregor and Lanham Acts in 1946. Land on which the houses were built came from the University, which has maintained the homes since their construction...