Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...school segregation issue came before the court in cases from South Carolina, Virginia, Delaware, Kansas and the District of Columbia. In making its ruling, the court issued one opinion covering all of the state cases, a separate one to deal with the special legal aspects in the District of Columbia. A sharp note crept into Chief Justice Warren's voice as he read one section of the District of Columbia opinion: "In view of our decision that the Constitution prohibits the states from maintaining racially segregated public schools, it would be unthinkable that the same Constitution would impose...
...South, the reaction was varied. In border states, e.g., Kansas and Oklahoma, officials calmly said that they expected segregation to be ended with little trouble. In Texas, Governor Allan Shivers said that his state will comply, but that it might "take years" to work out the details. From Virginia's Governor Thomas Stanley came a quiet, wise reaction. He carefully read the full opinion, then told reporters: "I shall call together . . . representatives of both state and local governments to consider the matter and work toward a plan which will be acceptable to our citizens and in keeping with...
...Mother's Day, Ike and Mamie made a pilgrimage to Virginia, where the President's mother was born and lived until she was a young woman. In a light drizzle, the presidential plane Columbine set down at Richmond's Byrd Airport. Governor Thomas Stanley and a score of Virginia dignitaries were on hand to meet the Eisenhowers and to escort them to St. Paul's Episcopal Church, where the Richmond Light Infantry Blues were lined up in full dress uniform with plumed shakos. The Blues, an ancient and aristocratic National Guard outfit, were celebrating their 165th...
After lunch at Virginia House, a handsome Tudor mansion on the banks of the James River, Ike and Mamie motored through intermittent rain and hail showers to Fredericksburg, where the President placed a pungent boxwood wreath on the monument to Mary Washington, mother of the first President. In Fredericksburg, Ike met two lively old ladies. Mrs. Julia Link Wine and her twin sister, Mrs. Martha Link Quick, 85, who had gone to school with Ike's mother and turned out to be his distant cousins. He had come to Fredericksburg, said the President, "to pay tribute to the state...
...local papers. Every person circled could collect a prize of one share of common stock in a West Coast company. At the San Francisco Stock Exchange one day last week, the second lucky winner appeared to get her share of American Trust Co., worth $34.25. The winner: Mrs. Virginia Pennoyer Livermore, great granddaughter of J. P. Morgan...