Word: orval
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...delighted to read your article on Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus [Sept. 23]. I, and many other Arkansans, feel that...
...thank Orval Faubus for reminding us of a forgotten privilege-states' rights...
...problem was that Arkansas' Governor Orval Eugene Faubus had once more wrecked a responsible attempt to reestablish the rule of law in Little Rock and to restore the kind of peaceful climate in which his state might get back into step with the rest of the nation industrially, socially, politically, emotionally. This time Faubus had crossed up not only the President of the U.S. but four Southern governors who had worked tirelessly since the recent Southern Governors' Conference at Sea Island, Ga. to find an acceptable peace formula. One of these Southern governors, a Southern-born, Southern-reared...
...orders of the federal courts will not be obstructed by me." wrote Orval Faubus, "and ... I am prepared, as I have always been, to assume full responsibility for maintaining law and order in Little Rock." The words "by me" would give Faubus an out to let someone else do the obstructing, and everybody knew how he had "maintained law and order" before. Burned once by the conference with Faubus at Newport (TIME, Sept. 23), Ike declared the whole statement unsatisfactory, called off the negotiations...
...Benito, Texas, veteran of years of church service at Waco, Texas and at the famous St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Richmond (where Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee worshiped during the Civil War), devoted breakfast time next day to a talk with Governor Orval Faubus. He got what he thought was a promise of support for constructive mediation. Afterwards the bishop got a letter from Faubus replete with subtly inflammatory Faubus phrases (e.g., "to place the blame it would be necessary to reach far beyond the borders of this state"). The bishop did get unequivocal support from...