Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...VIRGINIA-23. Taft claims the state in the face of hopeful but faint dissent from Ikemen. Strong man in Virginia's Republican Party is National Committeeman Curtis M. Dozier of Richmond. Taft will make a major speech at Richmond in mid-January in an attempt to clinch Dozier...
...WEST VIRGINIA-16. Republican leaders met privately several weeks ago, decided that Taft was their man. Vigorous Eisenhower activity might break off a few delegates...
...California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Michigan, Nebraska, Virginia, Wyoming and Hawaii...
...Bromley Oxnam; the Rev. Eugene C. Blake, stated clerk of the Presbyterian Church (North); the Rev. Reuben E. Nelson, general secretary of the American Baptist Convention; the Rev. Douglas Horton, minister at large of the Congregational Christian Churches; the Rev. Ben. R. Lacey, president of Union Theological Seminary in Virginia (Southern Presbyterian...
Died. Edwin Leland James, 61, for 19 years managing editor of the New York Times; of a heart disease; in Manhattan. Jaunty, cane-swinging, Virginia-born "Jimmy" James first cubbed for the Baltimore Sun, became a regular Times byliner with his World War I front-line dispatches, stayed in Europe for the Times until called home in 1930, built up the Times's crack foreign staff. One of his best-known leads was on the 1918 Armistice: "In a twinkling, four years of killing and massacre stopped as if God had swept His omnipotent finger across the scene...