Word: legalize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gradually, in the areas where the schools were closed, and among the thoughtful people in the South generally, the full implications of the school closing began to soak in. Seen close up, the school closings turned out to be more than a defiance of integration, more than a legal stratagem. They turned out, in action, to be the Governor of a state seizing autocratic, political control of highly prized, independent local school systems. They turned out to be a real and forbidding threat to the competent education of youngsters in a sharply competitive national society. In short, they turned...
...rushed plans to set up temporary schooling in private homes, fraternal clubs and churches, but most churches flatly refused to lend their facilities for such a purpose, turned the segregationists away. As the private-school groups scrounged to find rooms elsewhere, 200 parents formed an organization to "pursue every legal means to keep public schools open." Led by such top local people as Dr. Ralph Cherry, dean of the University of Virginia's School of Education, and Elementary School Principal D. Mott Robertson, the 200 declared themselves above the integration debate, asked Almond to restore school control...
...countermove, six staunch segregationists chartered "the Little Rock private school corporation" with Faubus' public blessing and the announced aim of leasing the empty public schools to segregated-and state-subsidized-private schools. But it would be a long legal battle before such a scheme could ever work out. The school board tried to bridge the gap by starting TV classes. ("I wonder," snapped Presbyterian Minister T. B. Hay, "whether they will have a closed circuit for black faces.") Faubus even advanced the date of his referendum on segregated schools by one week to give the appearance of progress...
Died. John McPartland, 47, husky, bushy-haired chronicler of suburban sex foibles (No Down Payment), successful freelance journalist; of a heart attack; in Monterey, Calif. McPartland, who once wrote, "Sex is the great game itself." lived as harum-scarum a life as any of his characters, had a legal wife and son at Mill Valley, Calif., a mistress at Monterey who bore him five children and who, as Mrs. Eleanor McPartland, was named the city's 1956 "Mother of the Year." Later, McPartland's legal widow submitted the daughter of an unnamed third woman...
U.A.W.'s Reuther sermonized that a simultaneous shutdown by the automakers would be "immoral . . . unthinkable . . . a violation of the law." But Ford's Bugas countered: "The best advice from our lawyers is that it would be legal...