Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...varsity schedule for this spring includes 11 dual matches and the Eastern Intercollegiate Golf League championship. Two meets were played on a trip to White Sulphur Springs, Virginia, during spring vacation, and two more have so far been played in Boston. With the team now carrying a 2-2 record, Richart hopes at best to finish-with a record of just above...
Truman to get congressional approval before sending any more than the first four divisions to Europe. Behind the move was the fine hand of Virginia's Harry Byrd, as bitter a foe of Harry Truman as any Republican, and as jealous, too, of the prerogatives of Congress. The Republicans swung in happily behind. "Too long have we permitted the executive branch to sound the tuning fork," declared Republican Robert C. Hendrickson of New Jersey...
...with Congress. In it, Daniels attributed to the President some recommendations for reforming Congress. Most notable: limiting tenure to twelve years. Daniels pointed out that such a limitation would lop off such Democratic pillars as Speaker Sam Rayburn, House Majority Leader John McCormack, Texas' Senator Tom Connally and Virginia's Harry Byrd...
...Eliot became his kindly mentor and publisher; an independent income relieved him of the rigors of earning a living. Six months of the year he shared a house with Novelist Christopher Isherwood in seamy-gay Berlin; at home, he was wined & dined by Virginia Woolf, rubbed shoulders with William Butler Yeats, Aldous and Julian Huxley, Bertrand Russell. Some poets might have been stimulated by all this, but Poet Spender kept finding bumblebees in his blossoms. "In the life of action," he noted sadly, "I do everything that my friends tell me to do, and have no opinions...
...YESTERDAY OFF FORTRESS MONROE IN VIRGINIA," the telegram read, "THE C.C.S...