Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...began pulling out of its recession last spring, Democrats still made hay by labeling the G.O.P. as the Depression Party. But by last week, with signs of returned prosperity plain on all sides, the economic issue no longer cut so sharply into Republican chances. Thus, in hard-hit West Virginia, a Democratic poll taken last May showed 73% listing recession as the top political issue; this month the same poll showed recession tumbling to 49%-alongside the state's road-building program, at 48%. Similarly in New Jersey, Republican Senate Candidate Robert Kean's prospects have improved...
Aside from the Senate candidates, there are Democrats running for the House of Representatives who might fit the GOP's Procrustean definition of radical, but are really no more than garden-variety liberals. Among these men are Chester Bowles of Connecticut, Joseph Freehill in Virginia, Anthony B. Akers in manhattan, John A. Saltonstall and James MacGregor Burns in Massachusetts...
Massachusetts lost to B.U. by 14 (191). B.U. over West Virginia by 6 (197). West Virginia lost to Indiana by 1 (196). Indiana lost to Notre Dame by 18 (178). Notre Dame over SMU by 8 (186). SMU over Georgia Tech by 20 (206). Georgia Tech over Tulane by 14 (220). Tulane lost to Texas by 1 (219). Texas over Georgia by 5 (224). Georgia over Florida State by 15 (239). Florida State over Tennessee by 10 (249). Tennessee over Mississippi State by 5 (254). Mississippi State over Florida by 7 (261). Florida lost...
...Pittsburgh (4-1)-though wearied by a rough-and-tumble schedule, is still a solid all-round outfit, disposed of West Virginia...
Replies to the confidential poll were received from Southern ministers of 27 denominations-Baptists (31%), Methodists (27%) and Presbyterians (9%) predominating. Unsurprisingly, there was a wide regional range of opinion. Ministers in border states such as Delaware and West Virginia were almost unanimously in favor of integration. In Kentucky 89% were in favor, in Texas 87%, in the District of Columbia 86% and North Carolina 84%. In Arkansas and Mississippi only 54% were in favor of integration, and the least integrationist sentiment of all was in South Carolina, with only 50% in favor...