Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fire or Token? The impact of Almond's decision spread fast and spread hard through the South. Virginia, the traditional leader, had originally provided in its massive-resistance laws-in its authorization for the Governor and/or assembly to seize control of the schools from local districts, to close schools, to withhold school funds, etc.-a promising pattern of lawful resistance to the Supreme Court's basic 1954-55 decisions. Now Virginia was setting what amounted to a new pattern of limited or token integration, which had already been pioneered in North Carolina. Desperately, the Virginia General Assembly...
...Information Agency stepped flatfootedly into the picture. "Stripped of its emotionalism, distortion and heated charges," said the U.S.I.A., "this city's much publicized 'kissing incident' essentially becomes a question of the rehabilitation of two problem boys and their families." It quoted the vice president of the local N.A.A.C.P. as "not certain that the training school is not the best place for the boys...
...John Briston Sullivan, local real estate operator, wants to have the property taken out of MDC control so that he can develop...
Equally damaging are charges that the Philadelphia firm secured the contract due to lobbying on the part of Senator Hugh Scott, Republican of Pennsylvania. Shortly before his election last November, Scott told his electorate that he had personal assurances from the While House that the local company would get the contract. At that time the Army had not even completed its study of the bids. This has aroused the charge of "prostitution of the country's trade policy for political reasons," from the Democratic chairman of the Foreign Trade Policy Subcommittee...
...last week's heated MDC session that approved the founding of the new center, amendments proposed by the two men to submit the plan to the Attorney General for examination, to give local groups voting power, and to insure the non-profit character of the enterprise met with defeat...