Word: orval
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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More Than He Could Handle. Faubus had other qualms. The political effect of his stand was not quite what he had expected. His old boss, Sid McMath, was busy rounding up liberals to denounce what Orval had wrought. Little Rock's respected Congressman Brooks Hays, top Baptist layman (president of the Southern Baptist Convention), checked with the city's leading citizens, found them shocked and ashamed...
Weeds in the Corn. Back in the Ozark hills Uncle Sam Faubus unknowingly told, in just a few words, why Orval had done all he had done. In the little house near Greasy Creek, he turned to his wife and exclaimed: "Why, Orval is the second-most thing in the papers these days." Replied she: "Firstmost thing." "Yep," agreed Uncle Sam. "Well, that's the way Orval always wanted...
...there were weeds in Orval's row of corn. They reached out of the field and out of the hills and around the world. They had created ugly patches on good ground, and before they stopped growing, they might well kill the very ambitions that Orval Faubus had cultivated with all his might...
...Back of the local officials stood Tennessee's Governor Frank Goad Clement, who called out the National Guard last year to enforce integration and the law in Clinton, Tenn., and this year sharply turned down a segregationist delegation that urged him to follow the lead of Arkansas' Orval Faubus...
Arkansas. All eight tax-supported colleges are open to Negroes, and as the new semester began a fortnight ago, about 50 Negroes in ten districts had enrolled in white elementary and high schools. Things seemed peaceful enough-until Governor Orval Faubus called out the National Guard...