Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Republicans were delighted; the Democratic leadership was in despair. If Congressman Green's peanut amendment stayed in the bill, it meant the defeat of 90% parity. Reason: Democrats from such states as Virginia and Georgia would not vote for a farm bill that slighted the peanut. To gain time, Speaker Sam Rayburn hastily recessed the House...
...Republican love feast, Delaware's Governor J. (for James) Caleb Boggs named amateur Poetess Virginia Knight, bride of California's Governor Goodwin J. ("Goody") Knight, as an honorary poet laureate of Delaware. The work especially appealing to Boggs's eye was a two-stanza poem, dashed off by Virginia last week in Washington, where her husband was attending the governors' conference (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) with President Eisenhower. Title: The President Smiled at Me. Excerpts: "The President smiled at me/ And every fiber of emotion swelled within my soul . . ./ So deep was my humility . . ./ When the President...
...winding driveway, through grounds bursting with redbud and dogwood, to the great white Shenandoah Valley mansion of Virginia's Senator Harry Byrd, drove some distinguished visitors, among them Treasury Secretary George Humphrey, Democratic Senators Lyndon Johnson and Walter George, and Republican Senator Eugene Millikin. They met in the second-floor room that Byrd uses as his home office. From the meeting came a decision to strive for a compromise that might save President Eisenhower's liberalized foreign-trade bill-still under discussion in Harry Byrd's Senate Finance Committee-from being ruined by crippling amendments...
...president of Virginia's College of William and Mary, Vice Admiral Alvin D. Chandler, USN (ret.) has tried to make the easygoing campus a taut ship (TIME, Oct. 22, 1951). Last fortnight he announced that the governing Board of Visitors had ordered him to put tighter regulations into effect next fall. The new rules: no beer on campus, chaperons for every fraternity party, closer administrative control of student publications. Last week the students made public their answer to ship's discipline. In a special poll of the 1,700 undergraduates, more than half of the 1,165 answering...
...most serious reaction, from the Democratic leadership's standpoint, came from Virginia's veteran (22 years) U.S. Senator Harry Byrd, who was not named by Mitchell. Said Byrd: "A delegate to the national convention owes his allegiance to his state . . . Mitchell's position is that a delegate must surrender his convictions as the representative of his party in the state if his convictions are trodden underfoot by a majority of the national convention. This, in spite of the fact that the convictions of those he used to illustrate his position were well known to the Democrats...