Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Voters in Virginia and Texas put another dent in the rusty Southern argument that civil rights could best be guaranteed by letting the states do their own housecleaning. Virginia's proposal to repeal the poll tax was defeated by a majority of nearly four to one. But many organizations which wanted to abolish the tax-including church, labor, Negro and veterans' groups-fought the Byrd machine's proposal as complicated and dishonest. They feared that the blank-check authority it granted the Byrd-controlled legislature to set up new voting requirements might prove more harmful to their...
PRINCE MARRIES HERE, ran the Page One headline in the New Orleans Item (circ. 97,226), The exclusive story, with a four-column picture, told of the marriage of a well-to-do New Orleans woman, 36-year-old Virginia Kirk, and 26-year-old Prince Otto Wilhelm Hohenzollern, described as "youngest son of the late Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany" and heir to his abdicated throne...
...game will actually be televised by the NBC station WNBT of New York and will be relayed to Boston; Wilmington, Del.; Lancaster, Penn.; Providence; Washington, D. C.; Philadelphia; Schenectady, N. Y.; and Richmond, Virginia...
Supper Menu. To prepare for his boss job, urbane, unpretentious Field touched most of the bases from driver's helper on a delivery truck to classified-ad salesman, police reporter and editorial writer. A graduate of Harvard and the University of Virginia Law School and a wartime Navy officer in the South Pacific, he is a bit to the right of his newspaper's longtime stand in politics. A Democrat but no rooting-tooting Fair Dealer ("I'm a liberal conservative"), he thinks that "welfare capitalism" is a better answer than the "welfare state," believes that...
Married. John Boettiger, 49, erstwhile Hearstling (Seattle Post-Intelligencer), now a public relations man for the Dutch government; and arty, brunette Virginia Daly Lunn, 33 ; he for the third time (he was divorced last August by Anna Roosevelt), she for the second; in The Hague...