Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Candidate Linder and his thundering bombast at Atlanta's Confederate Memorial Day ceremonies [TIME, May 10]: My forebears came to Georgia from Virginia, having emigrated from England about 1650 ... I am a "real" Southerner-a statement I make with some pride-and in the next breath I say I am embarrassed and saddened by the words and actions of individuals like Tom Linder. I offer my poor apology for them to the rest of our good Americans-Northern, Western, or wherever else they...
...This amazing statement suggests that McCarthy is as firmly fixed in his Senate seat as Virginia's Byrd or Georgia's Russell. Such is far from the case. In the 1952 elections McCarthy ran at the very bottom of the Republican ticket in Wisconsin, getting less than 55% of the major party vote, as against 61% for Eisenhower, 62.5% for Governor Kohler, 66% for Secretary of State Zimmerman and a 61.6% average for the ten Republican candidates for Congress...
...every kind of pleasure, vice, shame and mental anguish," and returns to England a jaded 22, convinced that the only valid emotion is boredom, "or ennui as I preferred to call it." Into the midst of ennui steps an older woman named Elizabeth Rydal, a sensitive novelist of the Virginia Woolf persuasion, with grey eyes and a "long amused mouth...
...nine Justices could be present when the great decision was read. * Seventeen states and the District of Columbia have public-school segregation by specific law; four permit it. The 17: Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas Virginia and West Virginia. The four: Arizona, Kansas, New Mexico, Wyoming...
...Richardson lives in the Fort Worth Club, has one of the finest U.S. collections of frontier paintings by Russell and Remington. Murchison shuttles between New York, Washington and a collection of city and country homes in a private DC-3, the Flying Ginny (named for his pretty second wife, Virginia, who accompanies him on many of his trips). He has a 25-room house just outside Dallas and a 3,300-acre ranch 65 miles away. When he wants to get farther away from the world, he flies to his 75,000-acre Acuňa Ranch in Mexico...