Word: oles
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ross Barnett of Mississippi yesterday continued his resistance to the desegregation of "Ole Miss," claiming a constitutional position that lost its validity back in pre-Civil War days, according to a Harvard expert on constitutional...
...people in this audience have turned on electricity that Frank Clement put in your homes." Where he had once made hay as a boy wonder (he was first elected Governor in 1952 at 32), he now preached maturity. Orating to the accompaniment of hillbilly music, he portrayed himself as "Ole Frank," a "country boy," and allowed as how he would make a better chief executive than ever, because he was "ten years older, ten years more mature, and, I hope, ten years wiser...
...problems that drove Bill Veeck out of baseball in June 1961. He was stricken with a vascular ailment, treated at the Mayo Clinic, ordered to take a long rest. Will he be back? Says Veeck: "Sometime, somewhere, there will be a club that no one really wants. And then Ole Will will come wandering back to laugh some more...
...back in Prohibition days, and I met Sherwood Anderson," Faulkner used to explain when someone asked how he started to write. His first novel, Soldier's Pay, was published in 1926, but Faulkner had to make his living by odd jobs (including an epic failure as postmaster at Ole Miss) until Sanctuary, his seventh book, came out five years later. For almost the only time in his life he showed bitterness in public, boasting in a preface that the book was a "cheap idea" written only for money. But the money came, and when it was gone Faulkner...
...rejecting Meredith. They pointed, for example, to the lack of accreditation of the school from which Meredith is transferring-their own Jackson State College. U.S. District Judge Sidney Mize duly ruled that Meredith had been turned down on nonracial grounds. But Circuit Judge John Minor Wisdom called the Ole Miss burlesque "a carefully calculated campaign of delay, harassment and masterly inactivity." He ordered Judge Mize to issue an injunction forcing Meredith's admission. If Meredith enters Ole Miss next fall as planned, Alabama and South Carolina will be the only states with no integration at any level of public...