Word: virginians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...colleagues were panicking as a result of Negro riots in the big-city ghettos. Said he: "Now we come here with mobs in the streets, with further mob violence threatened, and no word is spoken of courage to defend the American way of Government." The House gave the venerable Virginian a standing ovation-then voted against...
...grandmother; the lines on her face were real; her poignancy and power were all the more effective for her age. Cobb, now 54, had played the part so memorably (330 times) on Broadway that he and Willy have become nearly indistinguishable. Even on TV's western series, The Virginian, he seemed to be a peddler in the saddle, itching to dismount and begin pushing his products...
...Virginia's Senator Harry ("Little Harry") Byrd Jr., 51, was settling comfortably into the handsome, five-room office suite that he'd inherited along with Papa Byrd's title last month, in stalked Oregon's Senator Wayne Morse, 65. The senior Senator prowled through the Virginian's homestead, admired the view of the Capitol, and then announced that he would foreclose the mortgage. "I'd like to have the office," rumbled Morse, who stands on the eighth rung from the top in Senate seniority and can claim nearly any office he chooses. Groaned...
Boost for Long. Over the past two years, as the Virginian has become increasingly infirm, Louisiana's Russell Long has taken on much of the load of the Finance Committee while shepherding several Great Society bills through the Senate. As Byrd's successor, Long-who inherited Hubert Humphrey's job as Senate majority whip-will hold one of the Senate's most powerful positions. Though personally volatile and politically unpredictable, Long, 47, has a record of populist liberalism that will undoubtedly be more in harmony with the legislative goals of the Johnson Administration than was Byrd...
...they met last week is a courtly but outgoing Virginian who acts, talks and looks quite a bit like a country lawyer. Unlike his sophisticated predecessor, Douglas Dillon, who was highly regarded in Europe, Fowler speaks no foreign language and is not notably experienced in the arcane affairs of international finance. In a job whose occupants in past years have often been men of wealth, he is of modest middle-class means. His surprise appointment April 1 was a disappointment to many financiers in the U.S. and abroad who had hoped for a man more in the Dillon mold. What...