Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Down to Washington's Navy Yard went the President to greet returning Antarctic Explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd. Cannon boomed a 13-gun salute to Admiral Byrd, a big-gun salute to Secretary Swanson, two 21-gun salutes to President Roosevelt-a prodigal display which left Grandchildren ''Sistie" and ''Buzzie'' Dall quailing...
Only Carter Glass had the strength of conviction to oppose the New Deal from the start. Harry Byrd, slower moving, stood by the President through the first year of the New Deal, doing such unpleasant political chores as reducing pensions of veterans, the salaries of Federal jobholders (many of whom live and vote south of the Potomac, are Mr. Byrd's constituents). But last year when the AAAmendments first came up, he balked. He led the fight that kept them from passage. Before the summer was out he moved over into the camp of his fellow Virginian Carter Glass...
Stumbling Block. Superficially the circumstances that made Henry Wallace what he is-he spent his youth helping his father make a country paper succeed-are like the circumstances that made Harry Byrd into Henry Wallace's chief stumbling block. The Byrds are a Virginia family ancient as any, but Harry's Father, Richard Evelyn Byrd Sr., a successful criminal lawyer, made unsuccessful investments, died poor. He left three sons, Tom, Dick and Harry. Tom grew up to be an apple grower. Dick was regarded as something of a sissy and in the course of time developed an uncommon...
...political tutor was his uncle, Henry De La Warr Flood, who in Woodrow Wilson's time was Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. In the same era Harry Byrd was a freshman in the Virginia State Senate. He did not smoke and he did not drink (to this day his good natured brother Tom generally takes two drinks when they are passed, saying, "this is mine and this is Harry's") and he was not spectacular. But the time came when he led the Democrats in the State Senate and soundly trounced C. Bascom Slemp...
...when Franklin Roosevelt was inaugurated, Senator Claude Swanson went to the Cabinet. Promptly Governor Pollard of Virginia named Harry Byrd to the Senate as colleague of Virginia's perennial Carter Glass. No state ever had a happier team of Senators. By age, by admiration for each other's virtues, they might be father and son. But they are not a happy combination for the New Deal, for today they rally the Jeffersonian away from New Deal Democrats. Every time Henry Wallace or another New Dealer asks more power, the Democratic-New Deal coalition shakes from stem to stern...