Word: bayards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with either of them. Many senators held that the Senator's personal relations with the Executive would make it impossible for him to execute properly the functions of the chairmanship. A majority of the Senate eventually took this position, and Sumner was shuttled off the Foreign Relations Committee. Senator Bayard, in view of the action, fecetiously suggested that the title of the Committee on Foreign Relations be changed the "Committee on Personal Relations...
Partners at Croquet. Early in the New Deal, Harriman's political tutelage was taken over by a real genius, the gaunt son of an Iowa harnessmaker, Harry Hopkins. Hopkins and Harriman used to play croquet (Harriman had dismounted from polo by that time) at Herbert Bayard Swope's estate on Long Island. It was the beginning of a great friendship. Wrote crotchety old Harold Ickes: "Mr. Harriman was one of the famous group of patron-protégés of the late Harry Hopkins. Probably he was the chief of these. He was always willing to scratch...
...Bayard Brunt, 38, star rewriteman on the Philadelphia Bulletin, the tip from the Miami News on the death of a young woman looked like nothing more than a routine news story-at first. All he knew was that a Miami policeman, Earl Oestreicher, had been given emergency leave to go to Philadelphia because of the sudden death there of his wife. Brunt remembered Oestreicher: only two months before, he had eloped with Philadelphia Heiress Doris Jean Silver, 22, daughter of a vice president of Food Fair Stores, Inc. (fifth largest U.S. food chain) and niece of the chain...
Named last week by President Eisenhower to be the second U.S. Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare: MARION BAYARD FOLSOM, 61, welfare-minded businessman...
...Bayard Taylor, New York Tribune, reporting the Gold Rush...