Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While all this was going on, Southern Democrats began throwing you alls into Mr. Mitchell's chowder. Florida's Senator Spessard Holland said he had declined an invitation to attend the dinner because he thinks the South will gain nothing there. Virginia's Senator Harry Byrd said he had not been invited. South Carolina's Governor James F. Byrnes said he would not go if he were invited...
...Republicanism is in evidence from the Keys of Florida to the mountains of Virginia. In Florida, Republican registration has increased more than 40% since November. In Louisiana, New Orleans Lawyer John Minor Wisdom's workers are getting Democrats' signatures on petitions to change Democratic registrations to Republican. In Georgia, State Chairman Elbert Tuttle has established the state's first full-time G.O.P. headquarters, and new party units are springing up all over the state. In Virginia, the G.O.P. thinks it has the chance of the century to elect a governor. "For the first time since the Civil...
...went to work as an office boy with Armour & Co., soon took up bookkeeping as an after-hours sideline. He passed the CPA examinations at 21, became the nation's youngest accredited accountant. After founding his own auditing firm, he later took on the additional job of Virginia State auditor. Virginia remembers him for uncovering 100 cases of corruption and fraud, sending a county clerk and five county treasurers to jail, and setting up an annual system for county accounts that was so airtight that bonding companies slashed premiums for public officials...
Born. To Lord Ogilvy, 27, heir to the 300-year-old Scottish earldom of Airlie and Lady Ogilvy, 20, the former Virginia Fortune Ryan, daughter of New York Socialite John Barry Ryan: their first child, a daughter; in London. Name: Doune Mabell. Weight...
What gave this true, grim story its special interest was the fact that the Lewis boys were nephews of Tom Jefferson; their mother was Lucy Jefferson of Virginia, the President's sister. For Poet-Novelist Robert Penn Warren (All the King's Men), this was enough to induce a stream of narrative free verse that runs to book length, with a cast that includes the shade of the murdered George, the murderers, their parents, and Tom Jefferson himself. Author Warren takes the part of commentator and uninvited amateur psychiatrist. Stripped of its turgid pretenses, Brother to Dragons asks...