Word: token
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...make matters worse, Stonehouse invited three Africans to dine with him in the very dining room that Barbara Castle had made memorable. Finally, one midnight, an immigration officer got Stonehouse out of bed to warn him that he could be declared a "prohibited immigrant." Next morning, after a "token struggle," Stonehouse found himself on a plane bound for Tanganyika...
...lock all city schools next September. But HOPE took hold quickly; in three weeks businessmen were solicited for funds, and chapters were formed in Atlanta and seven other Georgia cities. At last week's rally Editor Meyer left no doubt that HOPE's members prefer at least token integration to locked schools. "This will be called surrender," he said. "I'm not afraid of labels. Fighting for Georgia's schools is no surrender...
...Florida's Governor Leroy Collins admitted that his still segregated state must initiate "voluntary, token integration" in suitable schools, or leave the when, where and how to be "dictated by the N.A.A.C.P...
...North Carolina, where token school integration (eleven pupils in three cities) began two years ago without even a court fight, N.A.A.C.P. groups sued for admission of 14 Negroes in token-integrated Greensboro and Charlotte...
...Democrats and 13 Republicans) to 28 (18 Republicans and ten Democratic Southern conservatives), passed a catchall housing bill, calling for spending $2,675.000.000-or $1,075,000.000 more than the Administration thought necessary-on urban renewal, public housing, college housing, etc. over the next six years. Despite token cuts accepted by Senate Leader Johnson, maneuvering skillfully against the possibility of a presidential veto, the bill would still authorize spending in fiscal 1960 of up to $185 million over the Eisenhower Administration's balanced budget...