Word: va
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Heel. Following the maxim that offense is the best defense, the city-room Confederates aimed their heaviest salvos at Ike's and Monty's own military records. The Staunton, Va. News-Leader chided: "President Eisenhower may have forgotten his own Kasserine Pass defeat and the breakthrough in the Bulge; Marshal Montgomery his excruciating slowness in hitting the Germans after the initial Rhine crossings.'' Columnist Anthony Harrigan argued in South Carolina's Charleston News & Courier that Eisenhower was "not an actual battle leader [but] a sort of super military executive director." And on the theory that...
...Eisenhower's ideological coattails were of decisive help in only three U.S. congressional races (Hartford, Conn., Jersey City and Wheeling, W. Va.) and one U.S. Senate contest (Prescott Bush's Connecticut victory...
FRANKLIN FORD Falls Church, Va...
...found what he needed. Stories of Soviet espionage abounded; the long fingers of Communism had been caught all too convincingly in Washington ; the nation, only recently run through the shattering experience of the Alger Hiss trial, was nervous. In Wheeling, W. Va. Joe McCarthy stood before a Lincoln Day audience, waved a piece of paper and cried with melodramatic certainty that "I have here in my hand" a list of Government employees known by Secretary of State Dean Acheson to be members of the Communist Party. Later listeners said McCarthy put the total of the list at 205; Joe denied...
...meeting, to be held at 6 p.m. in the Kresge Auditorium, M.I.T., features a recital by Roland Hayes. Hayes, a well-known tenor, was trained at Fisk University in Nashville, an institution aided by the fund. Alonzo G. Moron, president of Hampton Institute, Hampton, Va., is also scheduled to deliver an address...