Word: warrener
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...essence of the Supreme Court ruling (see The Supreme Court) was that the law does not retreat from violence. Yet it was through fully arrayed state laws that Virginia's Almond closed the Warren County High School at Front Royal and Arkansas' Faubus closed all four high schools in Little Rock. The irony is that the court's ruling was brought about by and is the answer to the violence built up a year ago in Faubus' wild bid for political power. This year the South's defense is one of legal stratagems. And though...
From his chair next to Chief Justice Earl Warren, tiny, pince-nezed Felix Frankfurter observed: "A court of equity would not be beyond its powers to require that the bridge be restored...
Next night Almond called a special press conference to announce that he was taking full control of the Warren County school district-and its closed high school. He thereby interposed himself, with his legal privileges as Governor of a sovereign state, between the school board and the Federal Government. That action would be tested in the courts. So would all the other laws of massive resistance. Politician Almond, who would dearly love to step into Harry Byrd's shoes, would fight with all his considerable skills to keep the Commonwealth of Virginia the way the Byrd machine wants...
...ordered to admit them or face contempt-of-court charges. If that happens, the Governor is required to shut down the school that is involved. Almond need not wait for the Negro children to set foot on the school grounds; he can, as he did last week at Warren County High School in Front Royal, take over as soon as there has been a final, unappealable integration order...
...Keating will be supported by sophomore Terry Lenzner, who has shown much promise, and again, below this, things are pretty uncertain. At center and end, the situation has eased a bit as practice has progressed. Pete Eliades is a dependable understudy behind Foster, and below Hershon and Keohane, Warren Huff and sophomore Bert Messenbaugh have looked good...