Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...multiplied Ike's housing program nearly sixfold (see above), it upped the Administration request for a 90?-an-hour minimum wage (v. the present 75? floor) to $1, and shouted the bill to passage. Estimated additional wages to some 2,100,000 workers: $560 million a year. West Virginia's Matthew Neely adjudged it "a majestic measure of humanity." Last week Congress also: ¶Passed. 409 to 1 in the House, unanimously in the Senate (and President Eisenhower signed), a new 8% postal pay-raise bill which corrects many of the "inequities" cited by the President...
...element of fear entered, too, at the annual forensic tournament in Virginia. Roanoke College refused to debate the affirmative side, but it was only one of eight schools to decline. The debate director for Reanoke, Mr. J. F. Prufer, stated that the team members were afraid they would be investigated in later life...
...this to advocate that Virginia attempt, by lawful means, to get around the law? That is exactly what we advocate...
...second aim should be to repeal the compulsory school attendance law; we should not leave in the Code any provision that might compel Virginia parents, white or Negro, to send their children to any given school against their will...
...third aim, the Assembly should make it possible for any locality that wishes to integrate its schools to do so. There may be quite a few counties in Southwest and Valley Virginia, where Negro population is small, that will wish to pursue this course...