Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After weeks of lurching about and tooting its horn in alarm, Harry Flood Byrd's sleek, well-oiled political machine rolled to victory last week in Virginia...
Candidate Battle, a state senator from Charlottesville, won by a comfortable 23,000 votes over his only serious competitor, wellborn, New-Dealing Francis Pickens Miller, who had the help of Virginia's growing Negro vote and its labor unions...
...feel elated," said Winner Battle, "but I do feel it's a great victory for Virginia." Replied Loser Miller: "This is but the first round...
...Fratelli Bandieri, a narrow, cobblestoned street swarming with seminaked children. She had first told her story to Correspondent William Rospigliosi of our bureau last spring. When I arrived, she had just received two letters from TIME readers. One, from Mrs. Betty Jane Davidson, of Bluefield, West Virginia, said that a food package was on its way and asked for shoe and clothing sizes for everybody in the family. The other, from Bernice Sherman, of Bolton Landing, N.Y., also asked for clothing measurements...
Vice President Alben W. Berkley bussed a Virginia beauty, crowned her queen of the Culpeper bicentennial festival and cracked: "While I'm in the mood, I may crown one of my own some of these days and keep her." The quip, 71-year-old Widower Barkley hastily explained to reporters overeager for the sound of wedding bells, had nothing whatever to do with Mrs. Carleton Hadley, the comely widow whom he had just visited in St. Louis...