Word: virginians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rare agreement with Minnesota's liberal Senator Hubert Humphrey, who demanded an immediate $5 billion slash in taxes. Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon opposed any such remedy on the theory that it would interfere with the broad tax-reform program that the Administration has promised for later. Testifying before Virginian Harry Byrd's Senate Finance Committee. Dillon made this decision seem unshakably firm. Asked Byrd: "As the chair understands it, you have no immediate intention of recommending a tax reduction at this session [of Congress]?" Replied Dillon: "None whatsoever." But the policy was not really that solid. Dillon assumed...
...convention's final acts, the D.A.R. elected as its new president-general a soft-drawling Virginian named Marion Moncure Duncan...
Apparently, only a handful of Virginian teenagers have yet realized the full significance of these shenannigans. When John Glenn told them to take off from a church social which they were disturbing last Saturday, they knew what to do. Sure enough. They slugged him good and hard...
Galahad Suit. Fortune favors her own; Washington did not drown in the Delaware, and Winston Churchill (as his legend has it) escaped from a Boer prison camp a few hours before he would have received a pardon. In 1951 the Virginian was a bashful, 50-year-old boy on whose career the gossipists were already dropping lilies. Then came the most famous walk-down of them all, High Noon, and here was Hollywood in top form: fashioning a Galahad suit of shining corn for an actor who did not have...
...something of a stir when he became a Roman Catholic. Not long ago, he talked to his old hunting pal Ernest Hemingway, who lay ill in Minnesota. Drawled the old cowboy: "I'll bet I reach the barn before you do." It was a line worthy of the Virginian, and only Coop himself could have topped it. A few weeks earlier, at a Friars Club dinner in his honor, he rose, carrying the secret of his cancer, and spoke: "If someone were to ask me, am I the luckiest man in the world, the answer would...