Word: segregationist
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...battling a tradition that has kept Catholics out of the Governor's job since 1888. Moreover, he had lost the powerful support of the New Orleans newspapers and many once-loyal do-gooders. With the segregation issue thrust at him, Morrison proclaimed that he was a better segregationist than Davis (who, he claimed, once ran an "integrated" nightclub in California), spent too much time criticizing Songwriter Davis' risque compositions (Red Nightgown Blues, Organ Grinder Blues...
...South was watching closely. Said Virginia's segregationist Richmond News Leader: "The residents of Deerfield gained a little understanding of themselves as they are. They may have acted deviously in authorizing this park, but the paradoxical thing is this: they acted honestly...
Aside from Ole Earl's downfall, Long-suffering Louisianans had something else to their credit. Trailing back in third place with 138,000-and thus out of the running-was State Senator William Rainach, who billed himself as the most diehard segregationist of all, warned the voters that they had the choice of voting for him or "losing the segregation battle." The voters decided to take their chances...
...automatically shuts down the entire local system; nonfederal funds are cut off. Obvious solution is amending the law to allow integration in Atlanta alone. But Georgia's back-country state legislators, who regard Atlanta as a big-city Gomorrah, are in no mood for compromise. Even if rabidly segregationist Governor S. Ernest Vandiver wished to ease matters, he left himself no room last week. Said he: "The people of Georgia overwhelmingly elected me Governor on a platform that, among other things, made my views on school segregation well known, clear and unmistakable. Those views have not changed...
...This man has the sympathy of the State of Arkansas and the sunny South," said the defense co-counsel, gesturing toward Segregationist E. A. Lauderdale Sr., 48, charged with masterminding the Labor Day bombings of Little Rock's school board offices, the mayor's business office and the fire chief's city-owned station wagon (TIME, Sept. 21). "Don't let New York or Chicago or TIME Magazine tell you what to do in this case," cried the attorney before the all-white jury...