Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...modernistic chemical plant. In Williamsburg, tourists moved quietly, reverently, through shrines that attest to Virginia's historic leadership. Near Berryville, plump apples were being pared, cored, cooked and canned in a spice-fragrant plant owned by Virginia's present-day political leader: U.S. Senator Harry Flood Byrd. And in Charlottesville, Mrs. Roger Boyle, the antisegregationist wife of a University of Virginia dramatics professor, sorrowfully displayed the charred remnants of a cross that had burned in her backyard because she had said what she thought...
...cult of the past, a temple of Shintoism in the U.S. In this sense Virginia is indeed less a geographical state than a state of mind, and the power of its longtime modern-day leader rests, as one of his aides said last week, on the fact that "Harry Byrd usually stands for what most Virginians think...
Club Without Bylaws. Virginia's shrewd, courtly Harry Byrd became governor in 1926. He promptly sponsored a forthright antilynching law (Virginia retains today a poll tax that works not so much against Negroes as against non-Byrd-organized outlanders. who often forget to ante up in time). Byrd also spurned easy, inflationary financing in favor of a pay-as-you-go road plan (tourists in Virginia, who bring in $600 million a year, still drive comfortably along Byrd-planned highways). After Harry Byrd went to the U.S. Senate in 1933, his followers continued to give Virginia good government...
...part to Nixon's unpopularity there), then slapped it down with a smart plurality for Ike and Dick. With a jolt, South Carolina Democrats noted that they had carried the state for Stevenson only because Republicans (with 73,000) and independents voting for Virginia's Senator Harry Byrd without his authorization (86,000) divided among them a total big enough to exceed the Democratic vote. On behalf of his favorite son, Estes Kefauver, Politico J. Howard McGrath began a small salvage operation in Washington. Kefauver, he said, emerges from the carnage unscarred and running hard...
Others at this protest gathering include Leo Cherne, chairman of the International Rescue Committee, who arrived last Saturday from Budapest, and former Ambassador Angier Biddle Duke, committee president, who flew from Austria Wednesday. Admiral Richard E. Byrd, honorary chairman, and General William Donovan, chairman of the national committee, will also speak...