Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Administration had battered down the roadblock set up by House Ways & Means Committee Chairman Dan Reed (TIME, July 6), the battle to extend the excess profits tax for six months was won. Last week Ways & Means sent an extension bill to the floor. During the five-hour debate, Virginia's Democrat Howard Smith compared the Administration to a highwayman who says: "Now give me your wallet. I know I ought not to do it . . . but I need the money, and I give you my solemn assurance ... I will never do it to you again." Smith's sally drew...
...foundered largely because the national government had no power to make the states observe treaties. The 1783 peace treaty with Great Britain provided that property rights of Britons and loyalists would be respected in the U.S., but several American states passed property laws grossly discriminating against loyalists. Said Virginia's James Madison at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1787: "The necessity of some adequate mode of preventing the states in their individual characters from defeating the constitutional authority of the states in their united character . . . had been decided by a past experience...
...William James Erwin, 52, vice president and general manager of South Carolina's Riegel Textile Corp., was named president of Dan River Mills, headless since President Russell Newton was ousted last October in a company shakeup. Erwin started as a textile engineer with Virginia's Consolidated Mills in 1921, switched to South Carolina's Republic Cotton Mills in 1934, to J. P. Stevens...
Cornwallis' army, badly worn by endless American harassment, and by such set-piece battles as Camden, S.C., Hobkirk's Hill, Cowpens, Guilford Courthouse, moved into Virginia and took up quarters at Yorktown. Washington was in New England contemplating an attack on New York-the French had landed 5.000 troops (who startled Americans by rigidly re- fraining from even minor thefts) to help him, and a big French fleet was preparing to sail from the West Indies. But Washington decided almost overnight to move against Cornwallis instead. The French war vessels moved to Virginia, too, and after five weeks...
Balding, 57-year-old Strauss (rhymes with laws) was brought up in Virginia and has never lost the courtly manner of the Old Dominion. At 21, Strauss got a job as private secretary to Herbert Hoover, who has been his close friend ever since. By the time he was 33, he had become a partner in the New York investment banking house of Kuhn, Loeb & Co. In four years of World War II naval service as a procurement and ordnance officer, Strauss rose from lieutenant commander to rear admiral...