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...that step. "We cannot refuse to do what has to be done," he insisted. "Most of us would still be living with our in-laws and driving a horse and buggy if it were not for that great institution known as American credit." Though they gulped, most old-line Byrdmen went along. The assembly (in which sat a symbol of change-the first Negro member since 1891) also approved Godwin's plea for a commission to revise the state's revered but outmoded constitution...
...Richmond. Governor Almond was careful to placate Senator Harry Flood Byrd's entrenched massive-resistance leaders. But he moved purposefully to consolidate the new coalition of moderates who helped him hold the line against the Byrdmen's drive for some last, Faubus-style gesture of defiance. "I don't feel defeated." said Almond, "just realistic." Carefully he picked 40 legislators for a commission to frame further resistance measures. Though segregationists all, the commission's members represented a gentle but firm shift away from control by the diehards from heavily Negro South-side Virginia, long the stronghold...
...write-in campaign, has held it since, despite mighty organization efforts to dislodge him. Nominated for governor a second time at last week's Republican convention in Roanoke, he found the campaign's blazing segregation issue already forced on him. As a hedge against integration, the Byrdmen -ardent states'-righters on the national scene-centralized all public-school pupil placements in Richmond, withheld state funds from any school district that defies the state by mixing races. Like other moderate segregationists, Lawyer Dalton believes in district-by-district supervision, a plan that would inevitably admit some Negro students...
...candidate for governor in Virginia history (the 50-year average: 29%), but it was not enough. Furniture Manufacturer Thomas B. Stanley, backed by every unit of Harry Byrd's Democratic machine, was elected by a margin of more than 44,000 votes. In their own Virginia way, the Byrdmen pitched their campaign against Dalton on the argument that he was a big-spending, high-debt, New Deal type...
Last week the President: > Said a good word for Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd, for whose third Antarctic Expedition, still in progress, the House last month refused to vote an additional $250,000 (voted last year: $340,000). Unless Congress reconsiders, the President tutted, 50-odd Byrdmen may be left high & cold in the Antarctic without their Admiral, who last week was headed home on the flagship Bear...