Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Next evening Rockefeller got an argument from none other than President Dwight Eisenhower. Arising to toast Nixon at a White House dinner, Ike said: "The Vice President will be the head of the Republican Party for the next four years, and he will have my support and the support of...
Each morning the women gathered in an ecstasy of hatred on the streets of New Orleans, where two schools had been ordered by U.S. courts to integrate. They shrieked like harridans, cursed, kicked and clawed at the few who dared brave their lines. At McDonough 19 School, a boycott by...
The battle of New Orleans last week was fought both on the streets and in the courts. Methodically, relentlessly, the courts tore down segregation's façade. A three-judge federal panel denied the legality of interposition-the odd notion that a state government may interpose itself between...
The three judges further opened the way for the Orleans Parish School Board to claim $1,262,000 in funds that had been ordered withheld by the Louisiana legislature; the ruling was immediately appealed to the Supreme Court, where hopefully it will receive top priority on the calendar as a...
"I Won't Do It." As the legal struggle went against segregation, the fury of the mob outside the schools increased. The taunts grew more venomous. Husky men began to appear, ominously and silently, among the jeering women. The first to run the white boycott at William Frantz School...