Word: va
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Alexandria, Va...
...Roanoke, Va...
...year since he voted for Hoover in 1932 (on the ground that it was "dangerous to change parties in mid-Depression"); yet he is a devout Wilsonian ("Woodrow Wilson's New Freedom principles were the major philosophical stamp on my thought") and a registered Democrat in Fairfax County, Va., where he lives. He is a lifelong internationalist, a staunch supporter of the League of Nations and the U.N., has backed the Marshall Plan and the Truman Doctrine; but he sometimes speaks with an accent that isolationists applaud. He also strongly backs Senator McCarthy, but has condemned McCarthy...
Died. Major Henry Shaw Beukema, 29, son-in-law (since 1944) of General of the Army Omar N. Bradley, son of West Point's Geopolitician Colonel Herman Beukema; when his Thunderjet fighter crashed into the York River, near Williamsburg, Va...
...untutored, emotional level. In a masterpiece of political showmanship, Nixon explained his fund in simple terms, projected his engaging personality onto thousands of screens, and turned a desperate back-to-the-wall defense into a victory. Nixon got a sensationally favorable audience response, flew to Wheeling, W. Va., where Ike threw his arms around him and said...