Word: lawyered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Massive Resistance. In Richmond, Governor Almond, 60, able lawyer, onetime Commonwealth attorney general, big wheel in the machine of U.S. Senator Harry Byrd, was the man who struck the South's first blow. He sent state troopers out of the capital to Norfolk, Charlottesville, Arlington, Prince Edward County, with a tough message warning the school boards not to assign Negroes to white schools under current pressure from federal courts. Was his message a warning, above all, to the Norfolk school board not to carry out its announced intention of assigning 17 Negroes to white schools? Said Almond: "Precisely that...
...small sense, that solitary house vote reflected the only remaining fear of a few Arkansas lawmakers, not necessarily integrationists, that the Governor was simply getting too much power. Explained the lone dissident, Lawyer Ray Smith Jr., representative from Hot Springs: "I just don't want to give that power to any Governor-even though I believe in his integrity." Smith added that he chose not to disclose his views on integration...
...first official act, new A.B.A. President Rosser Lynn Malone Jr., 47, a lawyer from Roswell, N. Mex. who helped clean up the Justice Department in President Truman's closing days in office, made it clear that he would carry on where Charles Rhyne left off. As a first step, Ross Malone set up a series of regional conferences as a "pilot project for a world conference of lawyers" dedicated to peace through...
...liberal, Harriman also felt beholden to New York's Liberal Party for the 264,000 votes that it gave him in his 11,000 win in 1954. The Liberal Party's candidate, and Harriman's, was onetime (1950-53) Air Force Secretary Thomas K. Finletter, able lawyer and an articulate man on the platform, but untried at the polls...
...stocky man, thin-lipped and blue-eyed, who orated in harsh, leonine gutturals, Strijdom was the son of a Dutch ostrich farmer in Cape of Good Hope Province. By turns a farmer, lawyer, newspaper publisher and banker, Strijdom was unswervingly a politician. In 1929 he was elected to represent the rural constituency of Waterberg. Soon his fiercely Calvinist insistence on quoting Biblical chapter and verse that he thought supported racial segregation won him the derisive title of "the Messiah of Waterberg." His opponents of the largely English-speaking United Party were all much wittier and smoother than Strijdom, but they...