Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dirksen in the Senate, both of whom were able to work closer with the President than their predecessors. One consequence was a renewal of the Republican and Southern Democrat coalition. The Democratic leadership found its problem in controlling the Southerners rather than the ineffective liberals. Judge Howard Smith of Virginia retained his arbitrary direction of the House Rules Committee despite Rayburn's pledge to control him. And Johnson was unable to keep his promise of a civil rights bill...
Stripped of Ceremony. In Virginia Beach, Va., tourists stopping at the Knight's Inn found a note on the desk register: "Too hot! Just take any empty room and go to the beach. I have...
...were doubtful, or definitely in favor of overriding, Halleck and G.O.P. Whip Les Arends had quiet warning ("Either you go along with the President, or you don't") and promises from Interior Secretary Fred Seaton to revive eight politically strategic projects in next year's budget. Virginia Democrat Howard Smith, ever the foe of spending, whispered that he might be able to line up 15 or 20 other Southern Democrats for an economy-minded coalition...
...Headed by Michigan State University's President John A. Hannah, its members (three each from the North and South) include ex-Governors John S. Battle of Virginia and Doyle E. Carlton of Florida, Notre Dame University's President Theodore M. Hesburgh, Dean Robert G. Storey of the Southern Methodist Law School, and former Dean of Howard University Law School George M. Johnson...
...Virginia's apple-growing U.S. Senator Harry Byrd...