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Although Phillips spoke at the 66th Annual Congress of American Industry simply as "a Harvard University student and member of the YAF" and was identified as such in the Dec. 15 NAM News, the later News issue reverts to mentioning his former position, and with an improvement: "President of the Harvard Student Government...
...Manhattan last week, at the N.M.A.'s 66th annual convention, A.M.A. was ardently wooing N.M.A. It wanted Negro lobbying support in its fight against the King-Anderson bill extending social security coverage of illness costs to the aged, and against social security for self-employed physicians themselves. The Negro members found themselves on the spot, and sharply divided...
THOMAS JEFFERSON, the 2nd governor of Virginia, who ranked the education of the common people "above all things," proposed the nation's first public-school system in 1779. Last week James Lindsay Almond, 66th in the line of Virginia's Governors, who ranks segregation of the races above all things, was ready to preside over the dissolution of the school system which Jefferson established. For a close study of the motives that led James Lindsay Almond to the point of ending what Thomas Jefferson started and the complex legal strategy he was using, see NATIONAL AFFAIRS, "The Gravest...
Behind the massive walnut desk in Richmond's proud, Ionic-fronted Capitol, designed by Thomas Jefferson in 1785, sat florid, heavy-shouldered J. (for James) Lindsay Almond Jr., 66th Governor of Virginia in the line of Jefferson, Patrick Henry, James Monroe, John Tyler and Harry Flood Byrd. He had, he admitted, been under "continuous pressure." Just the night before, he and his wife had been awakened several times by telephone calls: "She'd jump up so I could get some sleep, and I jumped up so she could get some rest. Usually, it meant that both...
...would all the other laws of massive resistance. Politician Almond, who would dearly love to step into Harry Byrd's shoes, would fight with all his considerable skills to keep the Commonwealth of Virginia the way the Byrd machine wants it. The national tragedy is that the 66th Governor of the Commonwealth, at a time when the nation needs the type of enlightened leadership that is its due from Virginia, declines to step into the shoes of such Virginians as Washington, Jefferson and Madison, the builders of the Union...