Word: timmermans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Texas, whereupon the Kiwanians refused to give their customary pledge of allegiance to the flag. In Jacksonville an Air Corps veteran mailed his four Air Medals and six battle stars to the President for distribution among the soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division. In Columbia, S.C., Governor George Bell Timmerman Jr. resigned his commission in the U.S. Naval Reserve so that he could not be called into service. In Albany, Ga., persons unknown set fire to two buildings on the campus of the Albany State College (for Negroes), caused an estimated $300,000 in damages...
...LYNN B. TIMMERMAN...
South Carolina (20): All instructed for Governor George Bell Timmerman Jr. They may go later to Stevenson if the delegates approve of the civil-rights plank...
South Carolina (20): Instructed for Governor George Bell Timmerman...
Many Southerners, e.g., Governors Le-Roy Collins of Florida and Luther Hodges of North Carolina, were in no hurry to answer Timmerman's letter; other governors, Mississippi's James P. Coleman and Georgia's S. Marvin Griffin, got off polite but noncommittal answers. Less tolerant was the Atlanta Constitution, which acidly editorialized that "history teaches some people few lessons, especially if they happen to be governors of South Carolina." Then it put" its finger squarely on the basic weakness of third-party talk: regardless of how strong the South may feel about civil rights, it "cannot...