Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Virginia's expanding textile industry, Democrat Byrd says he may support some amendments. Utah Republican Wallace Bennett is worried about his State's lead and zinc industries; Oklahoma Democrat Robert Kerr, Texas Democrat Lyndon Johnson and Kansas Republican Frank Carlson are looking over their shoulders at the oilmen back home...
...five of the top teams in the country, one on each of five successive days next week. On Monday the Crimson will meet Navy, last year's national intercollegiate lacrosse champion, and highly favored by coaches to retain the title. Following Navy, the team will play the University of Virginia, Johns Hopkins University, Maryland, and Princeton, in that order. Each school is ranked within the top eight in the nation, and has won the national title at least once in the last six years...
...beneath the Democrats' fun, there was a sobering fact. The party's two finance experts, Virginia's Harry Byrd and Georgia's Walter George, thought that Lyndon Johnson's political dream was a fiscal nightmare. Johnson's plan affected several phases of tax policy, but its heart was a $20 cut for each taxpayer plus a $10 cut for each dependent (except the spouse), balanced against repeal of the Eisenhower Administration's tax credit on stock-dividend income. Johnson maintained that the proposal would add almost $5 billion to U.S. revenue. But Harry...
When the Senate finally voted, the count was 50-44 against the Johnson plan. The Republicans, with the exception of North Dakota's Maverick Bill Langer, voted in a solid bloc. Three other Southern Democrats (Louisiana's Ellender, Florida's Holland. Virginia's Robertson) joined Byrd and George in voting against. Only two of the Senate's 96 members failed to vote: Massachusetts' Democrat John Kennedy, who is ill, and Maine's Republican Margaret Chase Smith, who was abroad doing legwork for an Edward R. Murrow television show...
...years since she settled in Bangkok, Virginia-born Genevieve Caulfield* has brought to Thailand's 11,000 blind hope that they might otherwise never have known. Blind herself, she was determined to break down Thailand's traditional indifference to the handicapped, eventually founded the first school for the blind that the country has ever had. Last week, 8,700 miles away, her story was retold at a special ceremony in Philadelphia. There, as part of the city's Education Week for the Blind, Genevieve Caulfield received in absentia a small, belated, but much deserved reward: a plaque...