Word: pyle
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...report that the Arizona Synod of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. recommended . . . that the ban on the sale of liquor to Indians be lifted is in error. Synod did not make this recommendation. Rather, in the interest of civil rights, Synod voted to request Governor Howard Pyle to put the matter and final decision in the hands of Indian tribal councils ... It isn't that Presbyterians are in favor of liquor. The point is that they are against discrimination, and they feel that white man's laws banning the sale of liquor to Indians were discriminatory...
...Arizona Synod of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (Northern) faced up to a ticklish question after Governor J. Howard Pyle requested Presbyterian views: Should Arizona remove the state ban on the sale of liquor to Indians, as a step in establishing full civil rights for them? "I don't see how any Christian can say anything to the liquor traffic but 'No!' " cried the Rev. E. P. Smith, missionary from the Navaho reservation. But after short, sharp debate (and a score of abstentions), the synod recommended lifting the ban. Vote...
...future was the fact that, for the first time, the governors were talking in terms of coordinated political action. In Washington, Presidential Assistant Sherman Adams was working out a plan for a governors' "speakers' bureau." The plan, originated by Arizona's up & coming Howard Pyle, will set the governors off on a Chautauqua-like swing through their own states, commencing next fall, to spread the Eisenhower faith and philosophy. Last week Pyle had signed up 15 prospective barnstormers. "A governor," Ike explained, "has the chore of trying to inform the people in his state so that they...
Arizona's Governor Howard Pyle declared that the colonists were in a "state of insurrection." Authorities alerted newspapers and press services weeks ahead of time. "This is a white-slave factory," an assistant attorney general announced. "No woman has escaped this community for at least ten years. They are forced to submit to men old enough to be their grandfathers." Warrants charging 122 adults with conspiracy to commit such crimes as polygamy, rape, bigamy and misappropriation of school funds were carefully drawn...
...land department. Mathews had suspected skulduggery in the leasing of grazing lands, then persuaded Governor Dan E. Garvey to investigate, but was denied access to the report of the investigation. Mathews sued, finally won in the Arizona supreme court two months ago, and last week got from Governor Howard Pyle a copy of the report. On Page One of the Star Mathews promptly printed highlights of the report, which said that a former state official used his position to acquire federally owned land, later sold...