Word: safes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Where were "the best people" of Little Rock, Ark? We know the mayor was in his office. Why wasn't he out there in the street giving safe-conduct to women and children? Where were all the heaven-hollering preachers? Where were the priests of the "one true Church?" Where were the officers of the Y.M.C.A.? Where were the Boy Scout leaders? As a Southerner, I can understand the social issues. I am tolerant of a normal degree of cowardice. But the cowardice of "the best people" of Little Rock was an unnatural cowardice that ought to be explained...
...cranny of public or private life is safe from the curiosity of the U.S. press-except the U.S. press. Publishers treat other publishers as fellow club members whose foibles-and achievements-may be whispered about in a corner of the library but are not to be bruited about in public print. From its window seat in the clubhouse, TIME sees newspapers and newsmen, as well as other magazines, as legitimate, significant and often fascinating subjects for discussion and criticism. Because no other general U.S. publication talks so regularly and so candidly about the press in action, TIME's Press...
...thing, Little Rock had worked out for itself a seven-year integration plan, carefully picking and choosing among the Negro students most likely to do well, so as to minimize the possibility of trouble in a city with better-than-average race relationships. Even so, to be on the safe side, Mann and his 175-man police force had made carefully detailed plans to keep order. Orval Faubus never gave the mayor's plans a chance-and Woodrow Wilson Mann, who had twice supported Faubus for governor, is eloquent in his anger. Says he of Faubus: "His words spell...
...minded men and women of the Republican Party in California are not going to abdicate and permit the Grand Old Party to become an antilabor party. No man with a reputation for belligerence either in international affairs or domestic affairs, no matter how high-principled he may be, is safe for executive office in the Federal Government today. And he is equally unsafe to be entrusted with the governorship of California...
Locked-in Value. In St. Joseph, Mo., after Assistant Postmaster Everett C. Howard tried for two weeks to give away an antiquated safe, he lost his patience, advertised for bids, sold...