Word: dalton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rich turned out to be Dalton (Johnny Got His Gun) Trumbo. one of the original "Hollywood Ten'' writers who refused to testify at the 1947 hearings on Communism in the movie industry. Said Producer Frank King, who had stoutly insisted that Robert Rich was "a young guy in Spain with a beard'': "We have an obligation to our stockholders to buy the best scripts we can. Trumbo brought us The Brave One and we bought...
...Byrdhouse, but just in case his one deviation was still held against him, he announced for Governor in November 1956 without consulting Harry Byrd ahead of time. Whatever his private feelings may have been, Harry Byrd recognized Almond as a hot vote getter-and formidable Republican Ted Dalton was again running for Governor...
With the Byrd organization's enthusiastic segregationist backing, Lindsay Almond let out all stops. Negroes, he cried, were "threatening government by N.A.A.C.P. in Virginia by the cold steel of federal bayonets, and we will have none of it." Ted Dalton, urging a system of limited integration, never really had a chance. And the dispatch of federal troops to Little Rock ruined him completely. Lindsay Almond was elected Governor of Virginia by a vote of 326,921 to 188,628-and the Byrd organization, playing fast and loose with segregationist emotions, was more firmly entrenched in power than ever...
Newly-elected members are: Mrs. Marian W. Chaffey, Carmel, Calif.; Nancy B. Curtis, New Haven, Conn.; Margaret Dalton, Cambridge; Deborah Duff, Washington, D.C.; Marion Dusser de Barrenne, Cambridge; Elaine I. Hoffman, Newton Centre; Mrs. Sylvia M. Hubbard, Toronto...
...probable starting lineup today will include Charlie Devens and Frank Bachinsky at the ends, Harry Fitzgibbons and Bob Hallowell at the tackles, Doug Brown and Sam Snodgrass at the guards, and Dalton Avery at center. Tony Marlow, Tom Lawson, Chub Newell, and Rick Crocker will comprise the backfield...