Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Virginia's Senator Harry Byrd beamed with joy at the prospect of a victory he once thought he might never live to see. Democrat Byrd has long waged unremitting war against the Reconstruction Finance Corp., the huge Government lending agency set up by Herbert Hoover in 1932 as a depression emergency measure and expanded in function and influence during the New and Fair Deals. For years Byrd's fight was a solitary one. Last week, however, Harry Byrd was sublimely confident that the 83rd Congress would ultimately pass his newly introduced bill to wipe...
...that he forgets the names of common articles, so that when he wants a pen he will ask for "something to write with," though he can pick the right name out of a list. Nerve specialists have given this complaint a number of names; the University of Virginia's Dr. Cary Suter. who has studied it closely, likes "anomic aphasia" best...
...years at Westinghouse, runs the vital defense group, which includes atomic energy. The most profitable group, apparatus (heavy generators, transformers, etc.), is under John Koga Hodnette, 50, another Westinghouse veteran and a brilliant mechanical engineer (Alabama Polytechnic, '22) with a long string of patents. Virginia-born William White Sproul Jr., 45, an electrical engineer, bosses the general industrial-products group, which includes elevators, airconditioning, plastics, small motors, etc. Appliances are under consumer products, run by ex-Adman John Meek McKibben, 51. Price is the overseer who keeps the top echelon pulling together, holds it responsible for meeting goals...
John Wilkes Booth had been the darling of the family. On Edwin fell the double burden of detesting the assassin while mourning the brother. In the one role, Edwin reimbursed the Virginia farmer whose barn had been burned down around brother John. In the other, he pleaded with the authorities to allow the Booths to give John's body Christian burial. He wrote to Secretary of War Stanton, who did not deign to reply. He wrote to General Grant, who ignored him too. It was President Andrew Johnson who at last handed over John's remains, the raven...
...English ghosts in general nowadays tend to be literary and neurotic. One is a "novelist of sensibility" with a Virginia Woolf style; another worries, "Am I losing weight?" Among the best of Editor Asquith's pieces...