Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tossing out the conviction of Pennsylvania Communist Leader Steve Nelson, the Supreme Court held that the Smith Act of 1940 pre-empted the antisedition laws passed by the states, and that that was the intent of Congress. But Virginia's Democratic Representative Howard Smith, author of the Smith Act, said flatly that Congress had no intention of writing off the state sedition laws. The Smith Act comes under Title 18 of the Criminal Code, which also provides that "nothing in this title shall be held to take away or impair the jurisdiction of the courts of the several states...
...least a half dozen Democratic Senators, the brochure noted, are millionaires; Rhode Island's Theodore Green, Virginia's Harry Byrd, Oklahoma's Bob Kerr, New York's Herbert Lehman, Montana's Jim Murray and Missouri's Stuart Symington. Furthermore, four of the leading Democratic presidential possibilities-Symington, Adlai Stevenson, New York's Governor Averell Harriman and Michigan's Governor "Soapy" Williams-are "men of wealth...
...national furor over The Search for Bridey Murphy (TIME, March 19), one rational theory gained ground to explain how a hypnotized housewife in Colorado could "recall" a 19th century existence as Bridey, a redhead in Cork. The theory: Housewife Virginia Tighe, under hypnosis, had simply woven the story out of odds and ends that lay in her subconscious mind from childhood. That was the trail that Hearst's Chicago American took in searching for Bridey Murphy. Digging into Mrs. Tighe's Chicago childhood, American reporters found a wealth of names and incidents that looked plainly like...
...Kirkland and Merion; William W. Bartley, 3rd of Eliot and Pittsburgh; and William D. Fordyce of Leverett and Conshohocken; Rhode Island: John C. Brown of Eliot House and Providence; South Dakota: George M. Fredrickson of Lowell and Sioux Falls; Utah: Gary B. Christiansen of Winthrop and Salt Lake City; Virginia: Rollin B. Norris of Eliot and Arlington; Wisconsin: Stefan S. Anderson of Lowell and Madison and Albert Marden of Winthrop and Milwaukee, and Olaf H. Prufer of Delhi, India.CHIANG...
Medically and architecturally, the U.M.W. hospitals in West Virginia, Virginia, and Kentucky are among the most advanced to be found anywhere in the U.S. Built for the low cost of $16,000 per bed, the hospitals were designed for maximum efficiency, minimum operating cost. Each "chain-store" hospital is laid out around a central service core, from which food and drugs move by assembly belt and dumb-waiter to dispatch stations on every floor. A centralized administration and service center at Williamson, W. Va. will keep the books and do the housekeeping, e.g., maintenance, filling of prescriptions, laundry...