Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...American individualism. Al Smith's presidential campaign in 1928 stirred up poisonous anti-Catholic passions; Smith was a measure of how far Catholics had come in America and how much of an imminent danger they were. "We must save the U.S. from being Romanized and rum-ridden," a Virginia Republican committeewoman wrote...
...refer to Majority Leader Robert Byrd of Virginia. He is not. This Senator Byrd is from West Virginia...
Though Church could impede SALT's progress, he cannot prevent a majority of his committee's members from sending the treaty to the Senate floor for a vote. This could turn out to be the Administration's strategy. Said Senate Democratic Leader Robert Byrd of West Virginia: "My timetable for SALT is not in the slightest changed by all this shaking and trembling" about Cuba. He insists that the Senate will consider and vote on the treaty by Thanksgiving. Byrd also has met separately with at least two dozen fellow Senators, pleading with them to consider SALT...
...income assistance in paying fuel bills or his proposed windfall-profits tax, which budgets some $1.2 billion in additional help. As a result, states are moving on their own. Massachusetts, Maine and Rhode Island are all looking into setting aside funds to provide heating money to the needy. In Virginia, Winchester Memorial Hospital's emergency-room staff is studying the treatment for hypothermia, caused when severe cold, combined with poor nutrition, makes body temperature drop, a potentially fatal problem for the aged...
...belief) has sent squadrons of amateur hunters backpacking into the hills to pan for gold. Some of the great old names-virtual ghost towns since the price was pegged at $35 per oz. in 1934-are bustling with new business. Cripple Creek in Colorado, Sierra City in California and Virginia City in Nevada, home of the Comstock Lode, are opening or planning to reopen mines, reworking old tailings with fancy new equipment, moving tons of rock to get at ore seams that for years were thought uneconomical to mine...