Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...parade of helpful Negroes and hostile whites into the paneled appeals courtroom on the fourth floor of Montgomery's Federal Building last week, even Southern members seemed discomfited by the reach and callousness of Alabama's discrimination. Said Commissioner John S. Battle, onetime (1950-54) Governor of Virginia and a leading advocate of segregation in public schools: "I fear the officials of Alabama and certain counties made an error in doing that which appears to be an attempt to cover up their actions . . . Punitive legislation may be passed which will be disastrous to the way of life...
...Adlai Stevenson, Harry Truman, New York's Governor Averell Harriman and ex-Senator Herbert Lehman). The council urged greatly expanded federal programs in social security, health, education, agriculture, public works and welfare, area redevelopment and urban renewal, did not attempt to put a price tag on the proposals. Virginia's economy-minded Senator Harry Flood Byrd-no member of the council-did. His estimate: $5 billion or $6 billion a year...
...Virginia, Christmas is a good holiday...
...There's a new law of the land today on the integration problems of public schools," proclaimed Columnist David Lawrence, a Virginia Democrat. "Token integration now has become possible on a constitutional basis everywhere." Alabama's Lieutenant Governor-elect Albert Boutwell, one of the leading advocates of the law, talked of calling a South-wide conference to spread his doctrine. But what the Supreme Court had actually done was grant Alabama the right that it or any other state is entitled to: the presumption of good faith until otherwise proved. When and if Alabama demonstrates by its application...
...past Stanford 16-15, to draw the unenviable Rose Bowl spot opposite Iowa. Louisiana State wiped out Tulane 62-0, accepted a bid to New Orleans' Sugar Bowl. Texas Christian dumped Rice 21-10, got the host spot in Dallas' Cotton Bowl. Syracuse had trouble beating West Virginia 15-12, was invited anyway to face Oklahoma in Miami's Orange Bowl. TIME...