Word: luthers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when he arrived in Rome in 1510 on a minor mission for his order, the young Augustinian monk of Wittenberg, Martin Luther by name, fell on his knees and cried: "Hail to thee, O Holy Rome!" Luther "went through all the devotions of a pilgrim . . . and earned so many indulgences that he almost wished his parents were dead, so that he might deliver them from purgatory...
...ISLAND, GA.--Gov. Luther P. Hodges of North Carolina proposed that Southern Governors Conference suggest to President Eisenhower that maintenance of law and order in Arkansas is primary responsibility of Gov. Orval Faubus. Gov. Frank clement of Tennessee proposed a committee of seven governors meet with Eisenhower to seek solution to integration problems which would avoid use of federal troops...
...North Carolina school plan, endorsed by Governor Luther H. (for Hartwell) Hodges was actually designed to minimize integration while appearing to satisfy the Supreme Court's desegregation order. It gave the state's 172 local boards complete authority over assigning individual students to the public schools. Many a segregationist who had supported the plan was shocked when the Greensboro, Charlotte and Winston-Salem boards decided last July to integrate-on a highly selective basis. With some Negro leaders helping screen applicants, strict standards were set up, e.g., to be accepted in white schools, Negro pupils must live nearer...
...prevent trouble. Speaking over a statewide network of radio and television stations last week, Hodges expressed his personal feelings: "I think the U.S. Supreme Court made a tragic mistake." But, he said, "we are forced to recognize that that court has the final word. [We] do not like lawlessness." Luther Hodges meant to use the power of the state to uphold, not upset, the law of the land...
Before the civil rights bill passed through the last stretch of the Senate foundry last week, the South's most famous Negro leader was drawing up plans for a Southwide campaign to make prompt use of the new weapon. Alabama's the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., hero of the history-making Montgomery boycott against Jim Crow buses, announced that his Southern Christian Leadership Conference (membership: 100-odd Negro leaders, mostly clergymen, in eleven states) is going to undertake a long-range drive to get Negro names on Dixie registration rolls...