Word: south
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Segregation in the South...
...issue of discrimination raises an even louder howl, mostly from the South. The southern states operate a wasteful segregation system--one set of schools for whites, one for Negroes--which helps to make southern education the worst in the country. Assuming that federal aid will go where it is most needed, the South stands to receive the biggest share, and citizens in the north ask why they should pay taxes to support a wasteful and repugnant system of "dual education...
Dixiecrats have their own philosophical objections to any program that would seek to end segregated education. Less hidebound Southerners propound the familiar slow-and-easy thesis. The South desperately wants hard cash, but within its existing "cultural framework." The North wants to test the southern devotion to principle: can the South refuse federal aid on the segregation issue? Perhaps Jim Crow in education may prove too expensive a luxury...
...York 35 pound shotput record by over a foot. His 57 foot 9 1/2 inch heave, only 10 inches short of the world's record, helped the New York Athletic Club into fourth place Saturday afternoon in the senior New York Metropolitan track championships on Columbia's wind-swept South Field...
...Chief Alvin R. Randall. They have been locking the same gates in the same way year after year; only a blizzard or a fire interfered with their duty. And year after year students quietly walked four blocks out of their way every time they wanted to pass through the south margin of the Yard after dark. The great circle route became a habit; it was well on its way toward tradition...