Word: segregationists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Horns & Tail. Next January, when the U.S. Senate convenes for the first session of the 85th Congress, the same Southern comet will rise over the national horizon as strapping (6 ft., 196 lbs.) Herman Eugene Talmadge, 43, segregationist and isolationist, takes the seat of one of the U.S.'s great senatorial statesmen, aging (78) and respected Walter George. To outward appearances, Herman has progressed not only beyond his father's viciousness and venom but beyond the uncertainties that haunted the brash youth who seized the governorship in Atlanta that rainy night nearly ten years ago. Smooth and suave...
...Senate Herman will find opportunity to voice his outrage against the present Justices of the Supreme Court ("A little group of politicians [who have] not had enough experience to handle one chicken thief in Mitchell County"). Isolationist as well as segregationist, he will take a stand against what he regards as pressing evils today in the U.S., e.g., foreign aid, overseas alliances, low tariffs, the breadth of the President's treaty-making powers. His views, his youthful vigor and his name will make Herman a new rallying point for the Democratic Party's Southern wing. Says Georgia Political...
Acting as though they were discovering and uncovering a pile of dirty linen, four segregationist members of a congressional subcommittee last week launched a windy investigation into Washington's schools. It was no secret to anyone that the D.C. schools, which started integrating two years ago, were having their troubles. But the committeemen, headed by Georgia's Representative James C. Davis,* were clearly out to make a national noise about integration-and they made some noise...
...success: the service's monthly Southern School News has walked the tightrope of factual reporting so skillfully that partisans on opposite sides now look up to it, and an increasing number of Southern newspapers are carrying its stories. A single mail brought subscription renewals from Georgia's Segregationist Herman Talmadge and Desegregationist and Novelist Lillian (Strange Fruit) Smith. Last week the service's correspondents were back at their posts throughout the South after a conference in Nashville to plan another year of "providing accurate, unbiased information...
Adlai Stevenson's float through the air pointed up the serious problems involved in negotiating such political acrobatics. His strongest support in Florida's primary came largely from the violently segregationist Third Congressional District in the northwest (Tallahassee). There, Stevenson's supporters, including veteran (eight terms) U.S. Representative Robert L. F. ("Daddy") Sikes, campaigned hard for their candidate as a man the South can trust on the race issue. The locals called in Mississippi's Political Strategist Sam Wilhite, who was a key manager in U.S. Senator James Oliver Eastland's campaign, to help Stevenson...