Word: manne
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Neither then nor thereafter did Governor Faubus consult with the man charged by the Arkansas constitution with keeping law and order in Little Rock: Mayor Woodrow Wilson Mann."There was no indication of unrest whatever," says Mann. "We had no reason to believe there would be violence." For one thing, Little Rock had worked out for itself a seven-year integration plan, carefully picking and choosing among the Negro students most likely to do well, so as to minimize the possibility of trouble in a city with better-than-average race relationships. Even so, to be on the safe side...
Order from the Court. Orval Faubus claimed to be unworried by Mayor Mann's criticism. He was holed up in his executive mansion, protected from intrusion by the National Guard, enjoying congratulatory telegrams, listening to piped music, watching Kinescopes of himself on television (he liked them), preparing to reap new publicity benefits...
...bags and took off for London and a meeting of the Inter-Parliamentary Union. The officers of adopted Arkansan Winthrop Rockefeller's industry-seeking Arkansas Industrial Development Commission said priva;te-ly that Faubus had seriously hurt their cause. Said Little Rock's Mayor Wood-row Wilson Mann: "The only effect of his action is to create tensions where none existed...
...only succeed in intensifying and multiplying this form of depravity." Lord Rothermere's Daily Mail agreed: "Great nations have fallen and empires decayed because corruption became socially acceptable. [The proposals constitute] legalized degradation." "There's no knowing where it will end," complained a woman M.P., Mrs. Jean Mann, on television. "We may even have husbands enticed away from wives...
Spare, high-domed Alfred Kantorowicz was one of East Germany's leading intellectuals, onetime intimate of Heinrich Mann, Romain Rolland and Ernest Hemingway, the founder of a guild of anti-Nazi writers in exile, the author himself of half a dozen books, including a lively portrait of the 21-nation battalion he commanded in the Spanish Civil...