Word: lloyds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Earlier in the week the Prime Minister had taken a severe tongue-lashing at the hands of shaggy-maned Liberal Lloyd George, Britain's Wartime Prime Minister. Supporting a Labor motion of "no confidence" in the Prime Minister, 75-year-old Lloyd George, one of the best showmen in the House of Commons, had the M.P.s rolling in the aisles when he twitted the 69-year-old Prime Minister about his age and lack of courage. Of Mr. Chamberlain and French Premier Daladier at Munich, Lloyd George declared: "They both ran away as hard as they could from their...
...some three years ago, 24-year-old Lloyd L. Gaines, Negro, bearing a diploma from Missouri's Lincoln University (for Negroes), presented himself at University of Missouri, surprised its officials by proposing to enter their Law School. In its 96 years, the university had never admitted a Negro. Like all Southern States, Missouri makes Negroes and whites attend separate schools...
...professional education, Missouri had provided scholarships in northern law schools for Negroes. Missouri officials offered Gaines such a scholarship. Gaines refused it, insisted on his right to be taught law in Missouri, like white folks. Last week, in a historic decision, the U. S. Supreme Court held that Lloyd Gaines was within his rights...
...admittedly qualified to enter University of Missouri's Law School, and 2) Missouri could not shift to another State its constitutional duty to provide equal educational opportunities for all citizens, whatever their color. Reversing Missouri's courts, the U. S. Supreme Court ordered Missouri to admit Lloyd Gaines to its State university or give him legal training at Lincoln University...
Playing for time, Missouri waited for official word from the Court, refused to say what it would do with Lloyd Gaines, now a clerk in the Michigan civil service. Best guess was that the Legislature would start a law course at Lincoln University...