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...Faubus version of crisis in Little Rock was open to immediate doubt. Arkansas does not have a record of racial violence: the state university at Fayetteville was quietly integrated in 1948; during the very week that Little Rock was supposed to explode, three other Arkansas communities-Ozark, Fort Smith and Van Buren-integrated without a murmur. Furthermore, bus integration is a statewide fact, and Little Rock's white and Negro citizens have become accustomed to their Negro policemen...
Faubus crawled through the Depression years as a student, a country schoolteacher, an itinerant farm laborer, a lumberjack. In 1938 he was elected circuit clerk and recorder for Huntsville (income from fees about $2,300 a year), the first of his long series of political jobs. He enlisted in the infantry in 1942, went through Officer Candidate School, served 392 days under fire in the ETO with the National Guard 35th Division, came home a major. He promptly got himself appointed acting postmaster of Huntsville (pop. 1.150), resigned after he bought a scraggly Huntsville weekly, the Madison County Record (circ...
...widening gap between the two was due to Neuberger's increasing self-assurance; in his third session the junior Senator no longer felt obliged to listen to his onetime University of Oregon law professor. He spoke up in class without regard for what Teacher thought, padded the Congressional Record with his thoughts on subjects ranging from Asian flu to the Klamath Indians. After Morse attacked Neuberger's position on civil rights, the junior Senator infuriated the senior Senator by getting Illinois' philosophizing -Senator Paul Douglas to write letters to Oregonians extolling Neuberger, the great liberal. "A snide...
...increased soft-coal production), laid out $138 million in $100-a-month pensions, medical benefits, and widows' and orphans' payments to a total of 215,702 beneficiaries. The $15 million left over after administrative costs ($3,900,000) brought the fund's reserve up to a record $145 million -a sum that pen can write and tongue can tell, but hand can hardly count...
...dictatorships have iron laws of their own, and committee rule is not one of them-the comrade who will always bear close watching is the glowering little man who even now can be seen edging away from the newsreel camera's center of focus. He has a record of survival...