Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan, the Circumnavigators Club gave a testimonial dinner for Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd, famed Arctic & Antarctic explorer. In a setting designed to resemble Byrd's Little America camp, members wearing parkas presented him with a life-sized penguin made of ice. An Eskimo dog wandered around among the tables. Admiral Byrd showed motion pictures of his Antarctic expeditions, revealed that except for the money he made by lecturing he would be completely broke, was "pretty nearly broke" anyway...
Plenty of people like Senator Byrd. House Minority Leader Snell and a whole slew of ladies from New York, New Jersey and Connecticut who descended on Washington last week are convinced that any further so-called pump-priming will be money down the drain. But that Government spending from 1933 helped bring the U. S. at least a temporary recovery few qualified observers deny. Main objection to resumption of spending has been that the Recovery apparently lasts only so long as the spending and the Government cannot spend forever. To a press conference last week. Franklin Roosevelt gave his rebuttal...
...Juan Terry Trippe, 39, smooth president of Pan American Airways, the American Arbitration Association's gold Medal for "promotion of international good will and distinguished service in commercial peace." Past recipients: Charles M. Schwab, Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd, Harry F. Guggenheim...
...Administration bloc kept it moving forward in the Senate. When Missouri's Bennett Clark and several collaborators laboriously brought in 20 amendments, most of them excepting specific Government agencies from Presidential tampering, they were voted down at the rate of one a minute. When Virginia's Harry Byrd proposed killing the section applying to the Comptroller General, the Administration's majority against him stood at 4740-36. All this evidently made Floor Leader Alben Barkley so confident that instead of letting the bill come to a final test on Friday, he postponed the roll call over...
Divorced. Harold I. June, flight commander of the 1933 Byrd Antarctic Expedition; by Mrs. June; in Bridgeport, Conn. Charge: intolerable cruelty...