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...FARRIS BRYANT Governor Tallahassee...
...Barton case revelations were clearly too much for many a confirmed segregationist to swallow. State Representative Philip Bryant damned the commission as a "private Gestapo." The influential Jackson State Times asked editorially: "Has the State Sovereignty Commission developed into a secret police organization? What right has the commission to maintain files on any Mississippian?" Suddenly aware that what could happen to Barton could happen to them, more and more Mississippians seemed to be agreeing with I. H. Howell, editor of the Batesville Panolian. "When they organized the Sovereignty Commission,", he said, "I had no kick. But when they start having...
...about the tourist exodus, it has brought a tangle of new problems. For one. the need for highways is pressing. The state has built 500 miles of four-lane roads in the past five years, but that does not begin to fill the need. Says newly elected Governor Farris Bryant: "We are a score of years and a billion dollars behind in highway construction." As fast as industry is coming into Florida, it still is not coming fast enough to supply the new jobs that the state needs for its burgeoning population. Just to keep ahead of unemployment-which...
...Catholic for President. "Baptists in the United States," said Executive Director Emanuel Carlson of the church's Joint Committee on Public Affairs, "are overwhelmingly in agreement with the views of the President that aid to sectarian institutions is clearly unconstitutional." Harvard's ex-President James Bryant Conant, an educators' educator, placed himself "in agreement with those who feel that public funds-tax monies -should not be spent on private or church-connected schools...
...Right to Work. For young Terry Bryant, coming home from World War II, the battles of Blackie Bowman are won and done. Labor is not a cause but a kind of male club, possibly even a career. As the happy warrior of a rubber-factory local, Terry rises to shop steward only to discover that his union is run by and for a pair of labor racketeers called the Slansky brothers. Obscenely jeered and jabbed at by the younger Slansky, Terry slugs his tormentor. In seeming collusion with the Slanskys, management promptly fires Terry. Digging up his combat-fatigue history...