Word: respecters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President can best serve the cause of integration not by asking for a controversial investigation, but by lending the influence and prestige of his office to a high level meeting of moderate Southerners. Eisenhower has widespread popularity and respect which can do much to influence public opinion in the South. The need at present is for an invitation, not a subpoena...
DEEP South states are not going to get any comfort from either party. Both parties and their candidates, whosoever, are going to be aggressive and demanding in their stands on segregation. Presumably the two parties in this respect will cancel each other...
...rebels: "If you lay down your arms, free and loyal elections will be organized within three months after the end of the combat and acts of violence." But "first, the guns must be silenced." He promised to discuss a new deal with the elected leaders that would respect "the originality and rights of the Moslem community," but he reiterated the familiar refrain: "Algeria is and will remain indissolubly linked to France." If these offers were rejected, "France would then be constrained to mobilize all her resources to insure by every means the security of the population...
...Akron's common pleas court and made a clean breast of it. At first he defended his acts. "This has been going on since the earliest recorded history, among both savage and civilized peoples, and it will always go on," he said. "I developed a great respect for the women I served. Many are unwed, of good family, and frantic to save their reputations and those of others they hold dear. If they can't be cared for under favorable circumstances, they will seek operations [from unlicensed practitioners] at great danger to their health...
This race was amazing in another respect: for the first time in this country, three swimmers broke 50 seconds for the 100 in a dual meet. Chouteau Dyer of the Crimson and Sandy Gideonse of Yale each were timed in 49.7. The judge for second place picked Dyer, but so did the third place judge. The second-place judge's decision, according to all rules, should have carried. Somehow, it didn't, and Gideonse got second place...