Word: valleys
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...therefore suggest to the Congress legislation to create a Tennessee Valley Authority-a corporation clothed with the power of government but possessed of the flexibility and initiative of a private enterprise...
...years following that plea by Franklin Roosevelt in 1933, the Tennessee Valley Authority became the swirling center of a great national controversy. Castigated by its enemies as a socialistic octopus, defended by its friends as an amiable and beneficent giant, the TVA wielded the power of government to tame the floods of the Tennessee River and revitalize its vast and poverty-stricken valley, stretching over 80,000 square miles into seven states. This week the TVA, now accepted as a permanent part of the U.S. scene by friend and foe alike, showed the initiative of a private enterprise...
...clear. Democrat Kennedy's Catholicism was certainly a factor in his favor in the big cities, where Catholics are most heavily concentrated, though the Catholic vote was not so monolithic as the Kennedys had hoped; e.g., in Wisconsin's traditionally Republican but heavily Catholic Fox River Valley, the tendency was more toward party than faith. At the same time, an anti-Catholic vote may well have been decisive against Kennedy in such states as Kentucky, Tennessee, Oklahoma and Oregon. But in many Protestant areas-both North and South-Kennedy's Catholicism seems not to have worked against...
Problems of the political future were still very much on Ike's mind when he landed in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley. There his host was conservative Demo cratic Senator Harry Byrd, who has stubbornly refused to endorse his party's ticket, and all but urged his supporters to vote for Nixon and Lodge. With Byrd by his side, the President looked in on the drab little home at Mount Sidney where his mother was born, attended the annual luncheon of the Woodrow Wilson Birth place Foundation in nearby Staunton. (Notably absent was President Wilson's widow...
wouldn't notice Brooklyn, Connecticut, you to pass through going to Hartford. His ordinary tiny rural community nestled Connecticut Valley is extraordinary in its ordinariness. Its people are farmers, businessmen, workers, housewives, bank-business executives, and clerks; it has the distribution of sprawling estates and and three-room dwellings; the median into the area is, to the dollar, the same as the median. And for the past twenty years, political response has been uncanny accurate reflection of the national mood. The figures, showing the Democratic pertain of the two-party vote in the last five initial elections, bear...