Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week three U. S. Senators, all Democrats, charged their Administration with spending money to ridicule them. The offender was the WPA's Federal Theatre production about slum clearance, ". . . one third of a nation'' (TIME, Jan. 31). The offense was casting Senators Andrews of Florida, Byrd of Virginia and Tydings of Maryland as mild critics of the Wagner-Steagall Housing Bill. The Senators complained that their impersonators on the stage called forth boos & hisses. As their remarks came straight out of the Congressional Record, they admitted they had not been misquoted, but insisted they were not quoted...
Journeyman (adapted by Alfred Hayes and Leon Alexander from the novel by Erskine Caldwell; produced by Sam Byrd). The last novel by Erskine Caldwell to be cured for the stage was Tobacco Road, now in its fifth year. His Journeyman, even though he helped direct it, will become no such theatrical Oldest Inhabitant. The story of Semon Dye (Will Geer), a rambunctious, fleshly mountebank of a traveling preacher who turns Rocky Comfort, Ga. on its ear, Journeyman'-:, gallimaufry of humors lacks bounce, its madness lacks method, its plot lacks plot. Most of the time Dye struts lungingly across the stage...
...many scattered groups which make up U. S. Lutheranism. Listening in on NBC's Red network, Lutherans heard Muhlenberg's recruiting sermon dramatized, heard his connection with "The Cradle of the Nation" glorified by Virginia's Governor George Campbell Peery and Senator Harry Flood Byrd...
...table next to Morgan Partner Thomas W. Lament, got a chance to advocate anything at all, he had the chance to hear two speeches ably marshaling the grievances of Business. As alert as a college debater, the Secretary thoughtfully pursed his lips while Virginia's Senator Harry F. Byrd ("We might carry out the Democratic platform") and Morgan Partner S. Parker Gilbert ("Nothing would accomplish more . . . than the repeal of the undistributed profits tax") proceeded to needle the New Deal's fiscal policy...
...better weather. Before 1870 most growing was done by farmers with small orchards. Since then growing has gradually turned to larger and larger units. Commercial orchards now range from ten to 2,500 acres, with some 40 trees per acre. Most famed U. S. appleman is Senator Harry Flood Byrd, who has 5,000 acres in Virginia. Another big producer is American Fruit Growers, Inc., which owns some 5,000 acres in the Pacific Northwest, Maryland, Pennsylvania, the Virginias and Illinois...