Word: segregationism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pudgy Ed Turner, a Democratic candidate for Congress from Maryland's First District, paused for an instant in his speech to an Eastern Shore audience one day last week. Then he got off a remark that, on the surface, seemed singularly unexciting. Said Turner: "You know how I stand...
In this year's campaign the segregation issue burns mostly beneath the surface, but it nevertheless burns hot. In its de segregation decision last May, the Supreme Court decreed a social change that cannot fail to leave its mark on the nation's politics for years to come...
"Keep 'Em Out." In Maryland and Delaware the segregation issue may have decisive statewide effects. Just a few weeks ago, before Maryland's schools opened, Republican Governor Theodore Roosevelt McKeldin was an odds-on favorite for re-election over Democrat H.C. ("Curly") Byrd. Then came trouble in the...
Curly Byrd has been working hard, and for the most part privately, on the segregation issue. Example: with a newsman within earshot, a farmer sidled up to Byrd and asked: "What're you going to do about the shines?" Said Curly: "Keep 'em out!" When the nearby reporter...
Because of the importance of the fraternities to college life, the administration is on constant guard lest national affiliations force unwelcome practices on the Hanover scene. During the past year, Dartmouth--like many fraternity schools-- has been involved in a controversial fraternity segregation debate.