Word: letting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...great cathedrals of Europe were built by men of faith and devotion. The one comment that might be made about the church of today is that it has ceased to build cathedrals; faith and devotion are lacking. Men no longer believe; so they don't build. But let's build more cathedrals...
Marion Almond, chief of the boiler room at the Bethesda Naval Hospital, who says: "As for ingetration [sic'], you can quote me that I am 100% against it. I never let any nigger come close...
...Virginia political organization are the real secret of Virginia's segregation struggle. Far from holding to Jefferson's faith in the good sense of the common people, the Byrd organization is an oligarchy, composed of the few, chosen by the few to make decisions for the many. "Let the laws be enforced by the white people of this country," cries Harry Byrd. He does not mean all the white people-or even most of them. Poll taxes and some of the nation's most restrictive registration laws hold Virginia's vote to the hard core...
With the Byrd organization's enthusiastic segregationist backing, Lindsay Almond let out all stops. Negroes, he cried, were "threatening government by N.A.A.C.P. in Virginia by the cold steel of federal bayonets, and we will have none of it." Ted Dalton, urging a system of limited integration, never really had a chance. And the dispatch of federal troops to Little Rock ruined him completely. Lindsay Almond was elected Governor of Virginia by a vote of 326,921 to 188,628-and the Byrd organization, playing fast and loose with segregationist emotions, was more firmly entrenched in power than ever...
...refused to exploit the Goldfine connection publicly, but talked it up privately, managed thereby to set up an issue that Fred Payne could never effectively rebut. Maine politicos estimate that the malodorous Goldfine affair prompted 20,000 Republican steadies to stay home from the polls, provided the margin that let the Democrats win the governorship...