Word: georgians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year all ten went with the Administration. The chief reason for the switch: Speaker McCormack's lieutenants had let it be known that, in return for Georgia's cooperation on the Rules fight, a highly coveted vacancy on the powerful Ways and Means Committee might go to Georgian Phil Landrum...
Missouri's John Huston, of course, is a bit of the old sod if ever there was one. In Galway, he has a 26-room Georgian mansion, a trout stream, and a shooting bog. For some time he has been Joint Master of the Foxhounds of the Galway Blazers, for whom he gave a party one night last week that lasted until break of day, while Huston's fellow huntsmen, 500 strong, milled around under three marquees set up on the master's spacious lawn. "I like horses and deep country and the Irish pleasantries," says Huston...
Building Character. Rabun Gap-Nacoochee School owes its birth to Andrew Jackson Ritchie, a "mountain people" Georgian who worked his way through Harvard at the turn of the century, returned in 1903 to found the Rabun Gap trade school. When it burned down in 1926, Ritchie pooled his efforts with Georgia Presbyterians, whose own Nacoochee Institute had burned the same year. Wisconsin-born President Anderson, whose doctorate is from Columbia University's Teachers College, has run the place since 1956, with a goal of character building and the faith ("not just a platitude") that "prayer changes things...
...hoopla on the financial front, Post leads a sedate private life. He enjoys nothing more than spending a quiet evening with his wife and three children in their $1,500,000 Georgian mansion. In fact, he likes that quiet evening so much that he often leaves his spacious office at 3:30 p.m. to get a head start...
...large Georgian building in the southwest corner of the Yard has several offices with fireplaces on the first floor for use by the Master, Senior Tutor, and other members of the staff...