Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three days prior, the President had sent to Congress his program for governmental reorganization. Vastly vexed by this Presidential move was Virginia's Harry Flood Byrd, not only because he had been about to take the spotlight with a reorganization plan of his own, but also because the President's program failed to encompass the economies which the Vir ginia Senator champions. The. RFC extension bill gave him his first chance to trans late his displeasure into action. He rose in the Senate to object...
...neither the agency nor its chair man to which he objected, Senator Byrd explained. For them he had nothing but praise. But the Brookings Institution had calculated that the Government could save $30,000,000 per year by consolidating its credit agencies. One item in the Institution's program was transfer of RFC's as sets to some other agency as soon as its lending activities had ceased. Since reorganization should begin to take effect by July 1938, Senator Byrd proposed an amendment extending RFC only to that date...
Alighting from a train at Ogden, Utah attired in his Rear Admiral's undress uniform, Explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd was taken for a stationmaster, passed up by the officials sent to greet him. In Kansas City's Union Station, a woman had handed him a lost purse. Said Admiral Byrd: "Begins to look as if I'll have to do something about...
Under the direction of Archibald T. Davidson '06, professor of music, the Appleton Chapel choir gave a half hour broadcast ever station WNAC yesterday as a feature of the Catholic Truth Hour. Another program of fifteenth and sixteenth century church music, including works by Byrd, Lotti, and Palestrina will be given next Sunday on the same broadcast...
...Christmas Eve the "Yankee Squadron" of famed U. S. aviators headed by Bert Acosta, pilot of Admiral Byrd's transatlantic flight, at the last minute abandoned plans for a whoopee party with their wives at Biarritz, swank French resort across the Spanish frontier. They decided that they would rather raid Burgos, Generalissimo Franco's headquarters. The hundreds of incendiary bombs that they dropped on White hangars and munition dumps they jokingly described as "Messages of Christmas Cheer for the boys in Burgos...