Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Republicans had watched the President's entire maneuver with a wary and disappointed eye. In the sacking of inept Louis Johnson and the appointment of Marshall, a political issue was being snatched right from under their noses. When Virginia's Harry Byrd, a Democrat but no Administration man, rose to plead for the amendment ("I challenge any man who opposes this nomination to propose a better one"), Republicans leaped...
When mild-mannered Gregory Swanson, a 24-year-old Negro attorney from Martinsville, Va., tried to register as a graduate student in the University of Virginia's law school, the university said no. Officials explained that the Virginia constitution forbids it, ignored the U.S. Supreme Court's decision that Negroes must be admitted to white colleges when there are no equal facilities for Negroes. Attorney Swanson went to court...
...Charlottesville last week, a three-judge federal court decided that since Swanson could not find law courses in the State's Negro college, Virginia must admit him. University officials planned no appeal. Attorney Gregory Swanson will be the first Negro to enter the University of Virginia since Thomas Jefferson founded it 125 years...
Slow Burn. In Miami, Mrs. Virginia Lorns admitted setting fire to a truck, explained that her boy friend had been using it to call on another woman. In Los Angeles, John G. Murray, who objected to his landlady's pianoplaying, was booked on suspicion of attempted arson, told police: "I was going to burn the house down, and the piano...
...plan called for construction of permanent Government buildings, complete with bomb shelters, in four spots in Maryland and Virginia. All were to be no closer than twelve miles, but no farther than 50 miles, from the White House. One building would be large enough to seat Congress. Even so, there were Congressmen who didn't like the idea...