Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...objected to the nomination of a brash, left-winging ex-Congressman named Frank Hook to the Motor Carrier Claims Commission. Hook had run against Ferguson for the Senate in 1948. "The nominee is lacking in capacity," said Ferguson. Down went Hook. Then there was Martin A. Hutchinson, an able Virginia lawyer nominated to the Federal Trade Commission. Hutchinson had run against Senator Harry Byrd in the 1946 primary-Byrd's first opposition in 21 years. Byrd told the Senate that he did not want Hutchinson to be an FTC commissioner; he did not bother to discuss Hutchinson...
Born. To Ferenc Nagy (pronounced Nodge), 46, onetime Prime Minister of Hungary, who resigned (May 1947) after the Communists seized power, became a Virginia dairy farmer, and Julia Nagy, 43: their fourth and fifth children, twin daughters; in Arlington, Va. Names: Mary Susan and Sophia Katherine...
...show, Selective Service Director Candler Cobb growled menacingly about calling in the FBI, then quieted down as newspapers discovered that many of his delinquents were already in the service (one had just left for the Pacific). Cases of actual malingering were few: a handful of inductees in Virginia were caught trying to flunk intelligence tests; in Washington, a 19-year-old told the judge he had stolen a car because the draft wouldn't take anyone convicted of a felony. Most of the grousing was good-natured. Sample: in Los Angeles, a gag was going the rounds that many...
...script, huffing & puffing to find excuses for these athletic feats, tells an opéra-bouffe story involving Lancaster's "free men of the mountains," a foreign tyrant (Frank Allenby), and a fair lady (Virginia Mayo). Happily, their contrived heroics are spiked with some unconscious comedy...
...climate, too, grows milder and comes to resemble that of southern Virginia. In both North and South Korea, rainfall is almost entirely confined to July and August. The heavy concentration of rainfall is welcomed in the wide, southern valleys, which contain three times as much rice paddy land as the North, and where two crops a year of rice, barley, wheat or rye are harvested. Heart of the South is Seoul, which lies among granite hills overlooking the lordly Han River. The Japanese built wide avenues and modern buildings in Seoul's westernized center, but most of the city...