Word: byrds
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...posture of "massive resistance" to integration has a limited legal future. But as an astute politician hopefully headed for the governor's chair, Lindsay Almond, 59, recognizes something else as well. Massive resistance is the brain child of apple-growing, economy-minded U.S. Senator Harry Flood Byrd, and no Virginian has won statewide office in a quarter-century without Harry Byrd's blessing...
Faced by this situation, Candidate Almond took the obvious course. Accepting massive resistance, warning darkly against race mongrelization, he swept last week to an easy victory in the most lackluster Virginia gubernatorial primary in 25 years. The vote was small (roughly 7% of the electorate), as Harry Byrd likes...
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...
...excess of money. The soft spots in the economy are expected to prevent major wage increases from spreading through the entire economy, as in the past, just as the ample supply of goods is expected to check overall price boosts. Last week outgoing Treasury Secretary George Humphrey told the Byrd committee probing Administration fiscal policies that the Administration's tight-money policies have begun to pinch off the new inflation and that increases in the cost of living will soon stop. Wholesale prices have leveled off, he said, and this will soon show up in stabilized retail prices...