Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...restored House of Burgesses at Williamsburg, where Patrick Henry declaimed against the Stamp Act ("If this be treason, make the most of it"), a Virginia lady in lace cap and farthingale had words last week with Georgy Zarubin, emissary of the biggest colonial power on earth. "This is hallowed ground," Mrs. John Henderson, a guide, explained to Soviet Ambassador Zarubin, who was there with 30 fellow diplomats for the 180th anniversary celebration of the Virginia Declaration of Rights. "This is a shrine to the principles of freedom," she went on, "and for us Americans the greatest meaning, the greatest...
Republican Williams' target was a pudgy bull's-eye he has blasted before, onetime Bootlegger and Numbers King William G. ("Big Bill") Lias, whose badly distributed 360 lbs. cause him to resemble the false-bottomed gasoline truck he devised in the '20s to haul West Virginia moonshine. Forsaking crasser occupations, Lias in 1945 bought Wheeling Downs, a half-mile track on an island in the Ohio River at Wheeling. He soon raced into trouble: the U.S. sued him for unpaid income taxes that, compounded by penalties and interest, totaled more than $2,500,000. Immigration authorities, ignoring...
...issue of desegregation, Catholic newspapers in Louisiana, Texas, North Carolina and Virginia have come out strongly in favor of the Supreme Court decision opening white schools to Negroes. But though papal teachings clearly point to this anti-discrimination position, the Catholic press in most of the deeper South has kept...
...West Virginia, running for the U.S. Senate seat of the late Harley M. Kilgore, ex-Senator Chapman Revercomb led a Republican field of five, and Governor William C. Marland edged past State Attorney General John G. Fox to win the Democratic nomination. But in the race for governor, Democrats turned their backs on Marland-backed Milton J. Ferguson, picked Congressman Robert H. Mollohan to run against the G.O.P.'s Cecil H. Underwood, minority leader of the state house...
That was enough to send many a major and minor Southern politician, including the governors of North Carolina, Georgia and Virginia, and the attorneys general of Texas, Virginia and South Carolina, into a spate of purple phrases. "I hereby defy the ruling [of] the Supreme Court," snapped C. C. Owen, president of the Alabama Public Service Commission. Yet, elsewhere in the South, e.g., in Richmond, Little Rock, Dallas, many a bus driver calmly removed signs directing Negro passengers to the rear. In the North there was a crackle of excitement: newspapers front-paged the story, and editorial writers pontificated about...