Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...which our consciences told us was right. Nor has the Supreme Court insisted upon a hurried transition. It has given the 17 states affected a "reasonable time" and, moreover, it returned enforcement to the local courts, knowing that special problems are presented where the population is overwhelmingly Negro. But Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana have not responded with the same understanding which the court...
Under the leadership of Virginia, which presented an idea, not a plan, they have ridden off like headless horsemen into the woods of nullification-even though they call it interposition-and in the pursuit of every evasion of the decree that slick, if not smart, lawyers may devise. Nobody has proposed firing upon Sumter again, but the spirit of secession is there: secession from the moral conscience of the rest of the country and indeed of the world that is giving men of color -who far outnumber us of the white race-their civil rights, their right to be free...
Weyland at Langley Air Force Base in Virginia, to the $600 million-a-year research and development plan under General Tom Power, the range of Air Force activity has never been equaled by any military unit in peacetime history. And this year the Air Force has entered upon a fantastic new era of supersonic flight that dawned even before the fantastic old era of transonic flight seemed fairly begun. These are the keys to the U.S. Air Force today: its range and its change...
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. '38, professor of History, said yesterday that a statement by Senator Harry Byrd of Virginia spoke "sadly for the decay of constitutional knowledge...
...Steel has two small Minnesota taconite plants at Mountain Iron and Virginia, Minn, that ship 500,000 tons yearly, is planning a huge new plant near by to boost annual production to more than 10 million tons...