Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...VIRGINIA T. LESUEUR...
After Labor Day, Candidate Eisenhower will make a two-day airplane tour across seven southern states (Virginia, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Tennessee and Texas), flying in a chartered DC-6 and making speeches at airports. At least ten cities in the Democrats' Solid South will be on Ike's high-flying schedule. It will be the most extensive Southern tour ever made by a presidential nominee...
Pure Food & Drug Act. Collier's, then a leading muckraking magazine, hired Sullivan as a regular contributor and sent him to Washington, where he became such a crony of Teddy Roosevelt's that the President used to let him use his Virginia retreat during the summer. Soon Sullivan was editor of Collier...
...asked: "Are you emb-b-b-barrassed when you t-t-talk t-t-to a stutterer?" But by last week, Charlottesville had grown used to the question. It was all part of a special treatment, prescribed by the nearby Woodrow Wilson Speech Camp at the University of Virginia...
...campaign begins, Ike's best chances in the South are in Florida, Texas and Virginia. Whether he gets any or many of the South's electoral votes now depends on how well his campaign goes over with Southern voters...