Word: almond
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This year's Democratic Candidate J. (for James) Lindsay Almond Jr., 59, is stronger than Governor Stanley: he was an able Congressman and attorney general, won Byrd's grudging benediction for governor by starting early, shrewdly maneuvering other hopefuls out of contention. Nonetheless, Republican Ted Dalton had an outside chance against Almond because before Little Rock Dalton was talking sense about gradual integration and-to the quiet disgust of many Virginia Democrats-Almond was peddling the massive-resistance nonsense that Harry Byrd had decreed. Then the federal troops flew into Arkansas...
...rally at the Danville fair: "If the Democratic ticket fails to secure a resounding victory, it will be construed all over the U.S., and in fact the world, as a victory for Warren, Brownell, Eisenhower and the National Association for the Agitation of Colored People."* Shouted Candidate Almond in the "Black Belt" town of Danville: "We mean to stand and fight with that honor characteristic of Virginia, to preserve Virginia's sacred, sovereign right to govern her own internal affairs...
...beaten next month. The result will be a loss for the whole South-not because Dalton is Dalton or is a Republican but because Harry Byrd, who could have used his vast influence for moderation, has chosen to win his victory by preaching defiant white supremacy. Democrat Almond, in winning the governorship on such terms, will inherit a state of chaos and hatred when the Supreme Court moves against Byrd's system of legal subterfuge...
Workers' Support. White-thatched, ruddy-faced Lindsay Almond got his crack at the nomination the hard way. A onetime high-school principal, prosecuting attorney, judge of Roanoke's Hustings Court* (twelve years) and Congressman, he quit Washington in 1948 to be the Byrd candidate for attorney general, with the implied promise of a turn at governor. But as attorney general he lost his place in line when he endorsed Harry Truman's nomination of an anti-Byrd Virginia Democrat to the Federal Trade Commission. (Byrd beat the nomination in the Senate.) As a result, Byrd-minded Governor...
Outmaneuvered, the organization leaders accepted Almond rather than a factional fight. Reason: a healthy respect for Theodore Roosevelt Dalton, the Republican national committeeman who four years ago threw the fear of G.O.P. into the Byrd organization by winning an unprecedented 45% of the vote against Governor Stanley...