Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spite of such wrangling Majority Leader Barkley predicted passage of the bill by the middle of the second day of debate. At the end of the fifth day Senators wearily voted, 64-to-16, for a Housing Bill gutted by conservative amendments. Anti-Administrationist Harry Byrd called attention to Resettlement Administration's Greenbelt in Maryland, which cost $16,000 per family unit, and Hightstown Project in New Jersey ($20,000 per unit). Then he demanded a construction limit of $4,000 per family unit and $1,000 per room. "A spokesman for the Administration," he cried, "said . . . that this...
Strengthened and not weakened was Senator Byrd's argument for his amendment when Senators found on their desks what newshawks considered one of the boldest pieces of lobbying ever seen on the floor-mimeographed sheets from New York Housing Authority's Langdon Post maintaining that the per-room limit should not be less than $1,750. Senators owning homes in Washington figured that that was more than their own houses had cost; a comfortable 10-room, brick & stone dwelling even in Washington, they thought, ought not to cost much over...
...Senator Byrd squeezed through his amendment, 40-to-39. When the Administration moved for reconsideration, he won again, 40-to-39. The Byrd Amendment 1) holds down the costs of construction to somewhere near the level that $50-a-month families can pay for, and 2) practically cuts out slum clearance for some sections which need it most, for high metropolitan construction costs exceed $1,000 per room...
Maryland's economical Millard Tydings, who thinks with Virginia's Byrd, slipped through an amendment limiting any one State to 20% of the total to be spent. His argument: "I furthermore predict New York will receive practically all the money this bill contains." Senator Tydings found support in Robert Rice Reynolds, playboy but astute politician. Sang out Senator Reynolds: ". . . If $700,000,000 of the people's money is to be expended, I want North Carolina, God bless her, to have her part, although she does not need it particularly...
...Virginia's Senator Harry F. Byrd announced last week that he would introduce a bill to reimburse a Smithfield ham producer for losses suffered on hams which the Post Office was unable to deliver to Republic Steel Corp. officials during the steel strike...