Word: jr
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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DAVID F. SIEMENS JR. Los Angeles
...Jackson Kilpatrick of the Richmond News-Leader, once one of Dixie's hottest massive-resistance defenders, after last week's primary races for the 140 state legislature seats (132 Democratic). Like most politicians, Editor "Kilpo" read the results as a considerable victory for Governor J. Lindsay Almond Jr. and his moderate school program. Politicians also saw in the results a personal comedown for the segregationist patriarch of state Democrats, U.S. Senator Harry Flood Byrd...
...just-integrated Washington suburb of Alexandria (pop. 62,000). where Lawyer Armistead L. Boothe, 51, Virginia-born and Oxford-educated, held his senate seat against the combined forces of Virginia-style citizens' councils and all that the Byrd forces could throw against him. Byrd and Son Harry Jr., 44-year-old state senator, personally made calls and wrote letters for the candidacy of their cousin, Marshall J. Beverley, whose savage (for Virginia) campaign was managed by Harry Jr.'s brother-in-law, James M. Thomson. Almond maintained the fiction that he was not involved in the campaign...
...permit the President to ignore the ceiling when necessary to sell bonds. The committee tacked on an amendment expressing the "sense of Congress" that the Federal Reserve Board should expand the nation's credit supply by pegging the price of Government bonds. Cried Fed Chairman William McChesney Martin Jr.: "This is an attack on the independence of the Federal Reserve Board. This is a directive for printing-press money...
Porgy and Bess. George Gershwin might not have been overjoyed with the heavy, static, wide-screen pageant that Producer Sam Goldwyn and Director Otto Preminger have fashioned from his folk opera, but nothing can prevent the show's songs from tingling the spine. Standout performances: Sammy Davis Jr., Pearl Bailey...