Word: mattering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Louis court brought a temporary legal stalemate by granting to Little Rock's harried school board a 30-day stay in executing the court's integration order so that it could be appealed to the Supreme Court of the U.S. In a hurried move to settle the matter before Arkansas' schools open, the Supreme Court scheduled one of its rare special sessions for Thursday of this week...
...trying to decide what to do about his resignation. At his press conference last week, President Eisenhower hesitated, finally indicated there had been no decision. Said the President: "I have never urged him to [resign], nor asked him to, nor anything else. I have had a very-as a matter of fact, very-congenial talk with him." Most likely outcome: Wilkins will stay for the few months necessary to qualify him for a higher pension. His probable successor: Mitchell's administrative assistant, George Lodge, 31, son of U.N. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge...
...divided, and even President Ruiz Cortines did not plan to expropriate. He negotiated first to buy the ranch for $2,160,000. But when hassles among the Greene heirs threatened to delay the closing for years, the President dispatched the Agriculture Minister with an expropriation decree and ended the matter with a few legalisms...
...Guilds of New York sprang to the support of Dr. Jacobs. New York's Mayor Robert F. Wagner bucked the question to the hospital department. "As a practicing Catholic," Wagner said, he is opposed to the use of contraceptives in city hospitals, but "this is a medical matter-I leave that to their judgment...
...matter how good a reporter he proved himself, Gage could never resolve his propagandist's dilemma. When Spaniards got rich, they were rapacious, but when Sir Francis Drake did a little piracy, it was a "noble and gallant gentleman." So it went with one of Gage's great expose stories of Mexico. As he tells it, a "mighty and rich gentleman of Mexico" named Don Pedro Mejia joined with a viceroy to monopolize all the Indian maize and wheat in the country. The Indians and the poor appealed to the church, and Mexico's archbishop...