Word: stating
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hundred strong, the mob marched westward with its massed flags along Little Rock's 14th Street toward Central High School, shouting, cursing, and singing to the tune of Dixie: "In Arkansas, in the state of cotton/ Federal courts are good and rotten." At the intersection of 14th and Schiller Avenue the marchers came hard up against a thin line of Little Rock policemen. Four men of the mob rushed the line, trying to break through -and at that moment the clock seemed about to turn back two years to the race riots, incited by Arkansas' Governor Orval Faubus...
...recently elected anti-Faubus school board in a surprise action aimed at forestalling any Faubus troublemaking. But Faubus still had a couple of stunts up his sleeve. He called two members of the city government's board, blandly proposed that they write him a letter requesting state police to help preserve peace on school-opening day. The gimmick: Faubus could use the letter as evidence of an "emergency," lock the schools under his gubernatorial police powers. But Little Rock's city fathers knew better than write Faubus anything, calmly put their faith in Police Chief Gene Smith...
...Smith to keep the peace in Little Rock, and Orval Faubus could only stand ready to cash in on failure. If rioters could break through Smith's police line, Faubus could again declare an emergency. Already on his desk as the schools opened were orders calling out state police and instructing the National Guard to lock the schools...
...opening day the mob gathered outside the State Capitol. Faubus was on hand to greet it. Smoothly covering himself against a charge of inciting riot, he poured his spleen on Gene Smith and Little Rock's cops. "I see no reason for you to be beaten over the head today, or to be jailed," said Faubus. "That should be faced only as a last resort, and when there is much to be gained." Having nonetheless whipped the crowd to a rage, Faubus went back to his office-and the mob started down 14th Street...
Back in Baton Rouge from a nightclubbing 17-day vacation in Texas, Mexico and Arkansas, Louisiana's Governor Earl Long abruptly called his state legislature together in special session to consider a slate of 21 bills he wanted passed. The "urgent" agenda ran from vengeful bills against Long's political enemies, through pork-barrelling campaign provender, to a whimsical item that would have barred airlines from grounding stewardesses when they got married. The legislature at Baton Rouge last week just as abruptly answered the Governor's call: it adjourned 20 minutes after it had convened-the shortest...