Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Without fanfare, the President walked out of his office one day last week, got into his car and went over the river to Virginia on his first business visit to the Pentagon in five years. There, around a T-shaped table, he conferred for 2½ hours with Defense Secretary Neil McElroy and 15 top civilian and military defense officials: Topic: Pentagon reorganization...
Named last week to fill the U.S. Senate seat vacated by the death of West Virginia's Democratic Senator Matthew M. Neely: State Republican Chairman John Dempsey Hoblitzell Jr., 45, who directed the successful 1956 campaign of Republican Governor Cecil Underwood, first Republican governor of the state since 1928. Hoblitzell's appointment scales the Democratic majority in the Senate down from...
Hoblitzell made a big name for himself in high school as a trackman and golfer. (He still plays in the mid-70s.) After West Virginia University ('34), he turned to the insurance and real-estate business in Parkersburg, his home town, is now a banker in Ravenswood and a leading light in educational affairs (onetime president, state School Board Association; member, White House Conference on Education). A bundle of energy in politics, he won his biggest political fame when he helped Underwood into office, his biggest reward when he was made boss of West Virginia's thriving G.O.P...
...SLEUTHS can seize insurance policies of tax delinquents who leave U.S., ruled Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. Setting precedent, court said that Government may claim cash-surrender value of two policies held by a West Virginia doctor who skipped to Canada after conviction on income tax evasion...
Died. Matthew Mansfield Neely, 83, longtime (almost 25 years) Democratic Senator from West Virginia, onetime Representative and governor whose acid-tongued criticism and flowery eulogies became congressional legends; of cancer., after long illness; in Bethesda. Md. A fiery New Dealer, Neely served (since 1949) as chairman of the Senate's District of Columbia Committee (Washington's "unofficial mayor"). Republican Governor Cecil H. Underwood's expected appointment of a successor to Neely's Senate seat will reduce the Senate's Democratic majority from...