Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Exactly four men served Virginia in the United States Senate from 1920 until Harry Flood Byrd retired last week. That fact measures the continuity and power of the Virginia political organization most recently known as the Byrd Machine. But now the Machine is no longer Byrd's. In the last few years of the Senator's tenure, it has moved away from the ideological rigidity that has been its trademark for 70 years...
...there is a strong possibility that he lured away more Democrats (because of his Catholicism) than Republicans (because of his ideology) and helped elect, rather than defeat, John Lindsay. In Virginia, a Conservative Party candidate garnered nearly 70,000 votes-enough to thwart G.O.P. hopes of upsetting Harry Byrd's not-so-purring machine...
...most curious new coalitions to emerge from last week's elections was in Virginia, where labor un ions and Negro organizations combined with the conservative Democratic ma chine of Senator Harry Byrd to elect Mills Godwin, the Byrd candidate for Governor...
Holton carried two of the state's congressional districts: his own Roanoke area and the Tenth District in suburban Washington, which is heavily populated by federal employees; they can generally be expected to support a liberal candidate, and they plainly favored Republican Holton over his Byrd-backed opponent. If Holton moderates can resist the temptation to team up with the conservative-segregationist element, the G.O.P. will offer the Byrd machine even more serious challenges in future elections-when, presumably, the Goldwater thing will have faded...
...from 1939 to 1943, who maintained his political influence long after his term in office, in 1948 led the Dixiecrat revolt against Harry Truman, and in 1960, as an unpledged member of the electoral college, rejected John Kennedy's election to cast his ballot for Virginia Senator Harry Byrd; of cancer; in Birmingham...