Word: va
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...onetime (1939-44) Lord Mayor of Plymouth, newspaper executive (the London Observer); of asthma; in Cliveden. A New York-born great-great-grandson of John Jacob Astor, he became a British subject when his father was naturalized in 1899, later married tart-tongued Nancy Witcher Langhorne of Greenwood, Va., who became the first woman to sit in the House of Commons (1919-45). Said he: "When I married Nancy, I hitched my wagon to a star; when she got into the House of Commons, I found I had hitched my wagon to a sort of V-2 rocket." Because...
...Eisenhower-perhaps the one man whom Nixon had uppermost in his mind during the broadcast. Soon after he was off the air Nixon got Ike's telegram of congratulation (see below). There was still no blanket vindication, but Ike suggested a meeting with Nixon in Wheeling, W. Va. Said Nixon happily, as he hopped off for Wheeling from Stapleton airport in Denver: "I'm going to Wheeling to meet the man there who will be the next President of the United States ... I can tell you we've just begun to fight...
After lunch, Stevenson mounted the steps of McCracken County Courthouse for an informal speech in which he sang Barkley's praises and expressed himself unsurprised that a platform had collapsed under Eisenhower at Richmond, Va. Cracked Stevenson: "I've been telling him for two months that nobody could stand on that platform." At Louisville, later the same day, the Illinois governor blasted Ike's foreign policy views in less whimsical terms...
...Hope & Promise." After a speech in Springfield, Mass., Stevenson appeared at Quantico, Va., where his eldest son, Adlai III, was about to receive his commission as a Marine second lieutenant. While young Adlai sat among the ranks of successful officer candidates, his father delivered one of the most moving speeches he has yet made. Said Adlai Senior to the young marines...
Died. Joseph Hudson Short Jr., 48, President Truman's press secretary; of a heart attack; at his home in Alexandria, Va. Short began his newspapering on the Jackson (Miss.) News, for almost two decades worked in the Washington bureau of the Associated Press and the Baltimore Sun, in 1950 succeeded Press Secretary Charles G. Ross, who had died of a heart attack at his desk in the White House...