Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...quietly shifted positions. Senate Majority Leader Bob Taft, billed as Ike's inevitable antagonist, has to date shown himself to be the Administration's dependable and loyal majority leader. White House-Capitol Hill relations got a new twist when Dwight Eisenhower reached for the phone and called Virginia's Harry Byrd. Thanks, said the President to the Senator, for raising the question about "Engine Charlie" Wilson's General Motors stockholdings; it was good to get that one ironed out right at the start. But there was one important factor in this equation of good will...
...painted his benefactors to look like vain simpletons. When Napoleon conquered Spain Goya first curried favor with the victors, then commemorated their outrages with a series of compassionate etchings. Last week an exhibition of 81 of the master's works was on display in Richmond's lively Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, supplemented by a push-button movie on Goya's life and works...
...autopsy had revealed that Virginia Morton had died in the night of a heart attack and that her body bore no signs of strangulation. It was the opinion of the examiner that the defendant had never brought himself to commit the deed he thought he remembered. Said the judge: "You are free...
...After 168 years, Virginia's Alexandria Academy, founded with the financial help of George Washington, transferred its last class to a new elementary school and shut its doors. More than once in the past, it had passed into private hands but had hung on to become one of the oldest elementary schools in the U.S. Still structurally sound, the academy, where Robert E. Lee studied before going on to West Point, may be preserved by sentimental Alexandrians as a historic monument...
...nondrinker, Harris taught Sabbath school and rigidly shut down his small plant on Saturdays (the Adventist Sabbath), despite the protests of customers who wanted their lumber deliveries. But he prospered nonetheless. Harris Pine Mills, Inc. became a $5,000,000 business, with three subplants in Texas, Illinois and Virginia, besides the main office and factory, now at Pendleton...