Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...should be to eliminate from the State Constitution and from the Code of Virginia all laws that now require segregation in the public schools; these provisions are dead letters now, and are only hindrances...
Government Surplus. In Washington, D.C., Representative Harley O. Staggers of West Virginia received a letter from a constituent reading: "Sir: Would you please be so kind as to send my son an official of the U.S.A. for his school work...
...damned fools are going to fix it so that you'll never even be able to beat Ave Harriman," snorted Virginia's Democratic Senator Harry Byrd to his good friend, Republican Treasury Secretary George Humphrey...
...West Virginia's Bible-spouting Democratic Senator Matthew M. Neely was in rare form as he raged last week against President Eisenhower's veto of the 8.8% postal pay-raise bill (TIME, May 30). Cried he: "My text consists of the ninth and tenth verses of the seventh chapter of Matthew: 'What man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone? Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent?' For 1,900 years these questions remained unanswered. But now every postal employee...
...voice came over the radio: "Is that better, son?" Yeager, flying chase in an F-86 jet, had screened the sun. It was Bridgeman's introduction to Yeager. From then on, he hovers over many of Bridgeman's flights, a calm, wisecracking guardian angel with a West Virginia drawl...