Word: timmerman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...court of last resort is the people, and if the people don't comply, there's little they can do about it. It will probably mean the end of most public golf courses, playgrounds and things of that type." South Carolina's Governor George Bell Timmerman Jr. said flatly: "There will be no mixing of the races in our state parks...
...South Carolina's Governor George Timmerman Jr. contributed a remarkable definition to the controversy over desegregation of U.S. schools. Desegregation, said he, is "designed to lynch the character of a fourth of our nation ... It is contrary to the divine order of things. Only an evil mind could conceive it. Only a foolish mind can accept...
...pawed absently at his cutaway, as though feeling for pockets. When the crowd roared, he drawled: "I forgot it was one of those longtail jobs. Just every four years is all I'm used to wearing it." South Carolina. With no parade, ball or fanfare, George Bell Timmerman Jr., 42, was sworn in as governor by his father, a federal judge. His oath of office included a promise that he would not fight a duel while in office. He replaced aging (75) Jimmy Byrnes, formerly governor, Secretary of State, U.S. Supreme Court Justice, Director of War Mobilization...
...opponent is Lieut. Governor George Bell ("Little George") Timmerman, 41, a lawyer with offices in Lexington. Little George is the son of "Big George" Timmerman, once a power in the state's Democratic Party organization, and one of the federal district judges who ruled in favor of public-school segregation in the South Carolina test case now before the U.S. Supreme Court. An aloof, self-assured politician, Timmerman is campaigning quietly, speaking extemporaneously, without musical background...
There are few basic differences between the two candidates, e.g., both believe in public-school segregation. But the race issue has risen. There has been whispered criticism of Bates because his insurance company sells to Negroes; he will probably get most of the Negro vote. Although Timmerman has the behind-the-scenes support of most party leaders, the man with music last week was generally conceded to be running well ahead of Little George...