Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Weevil's Chance. Some of the biggest stars in the Southern Democrat sky-Virginia's Senator Harry Byrd, South Carolina's Governor James Byrnes, Texas' Governor Allan Shivers, Georgia's Governor Herman Talmadge and Senator Walter George-promptly came out for Russell. All of them know that, at the moment, he has about as much chance of being nominated as a boll weevil has of winning a popularity contest at a cotton planters' picnic. Then what are they trying...
...states plan to create new medical schools. Others are expanding existing schools which grant degrees only in the basic sciences to regular four year colleges of medicine. These states include Massachusetts, Connecticut, California, Rhode Island, New Jersey, Florida, West Virginia, Mississippi, and Missouri...
...Senator at least is having a go at the challenge. For the past
three years, Virginia's Harry F. Byrd has submitted an annual budget of
his own, prepared by a four-man staff which works on it the year round.
Last week Byrd put his plan for 1952-53 into the Congressional Record.
It would chop the President's budget by $8.6 billion "without impairing
a single essential function." Main suggestions:
Some of this information came from the House Executive Expenditures subcommittee, headed by Virginia Democrat Porter Hardy Jr., which made an on-the-scene investigation in Morocco; other testimony came from civilian engineers and from Air Force men. All of it seemed to point a finger of blame at the Army Corps of Engineers, which commissioned private firms to build the bases...
Since the LaPaz pronouncement, many reported saucers have been brightly luminous. They have been seen all over: in New York, Virginia and especially in the Southwest. Both New Mexico and California had a rash of reports last week...