Word: letting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Let us all thank Orval Faubus for reminding us of a forgotten privilege-states' rights...
...orders of the federal courts will not be obstructed by me." wrote Orval Faubus, "and ... I am prepared, as I have always been, to assume full responsibility for maintaining law and order in Little Rock." The words "by me" would give Faubus an out to let someone else do the obstructing, and everybody knew how he had "maintained law and order" before. Burned once by the conference with Faubus at Newport (TIME, Sept. 23), Ike declared the whole statement unsatisfactory, called off the negotiations...
...more than we do with them. They want good schools, sure. But where the schools are the same, they'll stick together mostly. It's not integration they want. They want to be as good as white folk. And I say fine. The sooner the better. But 'till then, let's keep them out of the schools...
...McClellan and his committee, for they are convinced, along with the rest of the nation, that Hoffa is a corrupt labor leader who should have been locked up long ago. He has gotten off the hook once already and the Committee well realizes they cannot afford to let him get away again. If he did, public opinion would certainly begin to question the value of a labor rackets purge that could not rid the unions of their most obvious offender...
...matter how successful the McClellan committee and the anti-Hoffa Teamsters may be in the next few months, it is almost certain that Meany and the AFL-CIO will not sit back and let Hoffa flaunt their ultimatums. They will bring as much pressure to bear on Hoffa as they can in the next few months and in December might easily decide to expel him. But we hope that the AFL-CIO does not take this step, for while it might destroy Hoffa, its effects would be far-reaching. It would be a far better thing to have Hoffa defeated...