Word: richmond
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Richmond. At the yearly convention of the allwhite, 25,000-member Virginia Education Association, made up of teachers, principals and education officials, 1,113 delegates overwhelmingly adopted a resolution calling upon Almond to summon the state legislature into special session "at an early date for the purpose of enacting such legislation as will assure the continued operation of the Virginia public schools as a state-supported function...
...parochial school, gasped: "Is it real? Never do that again; I'll have a heart attack." When the news got out, St. Charles was hardly surprised. In 40 years, Millionaire Baker has given the town and its enterprises a staggering $5,000,000. Says Mayor Ralph Richmond: "There isn't another city like St. Charles and there isn't another Colonel Baker...
After 40 years of using the big gifts, St. Charles understands two dangers: 1) the town has become spoiled, 2) aged Colonel Baker won't live forever. St. Charles is already steeling itself against the day he disappears. Says Mayor Richmond: "We're trying to get on our own feet so we can carry on by ourselves...
Virginia's Governor J. Lindsay Almond Jr., who has locked out three times as many schoolchildren (some 13,000) as the redoubtable Faubus, laid it on thick to a state P.T.A. meeting in Richmond: "I say to you in profound and pleading reverence that I fight to preserve the public school system." He got a whoop-and-holler ovation, but two days later, with the floor packed by late-arriving delegates from the state's more moderate north, a resolution to support massive resistance drew a 557-557 tie, and this was chalked up as a defeat. Then...
...Reynolds Metals Co. asked for was a new set of the most efficient offices they could get, and Gordon Bunshaft, design partner of famed Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, produced a high-efficiency aluminum, glass and steel building, set squarely behind its own private reflecting pool five miles north of downtown Richmond, citadel of the Old Dominion's fanciers of mellow brick, white porticoes and neo-Monticello atmosphere. Reynolds expected furious protests from wave on wave of outraged Virginians. Instead, the distinguished director of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Leslie Cheek Jr., told them that whether they knew...