Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last year and again this year, Sena tor Harry Flood Byrd of Virginia with many backers has sprung up to question Mr. Wallace's contention. For the chief disputed amendments-licensing and bookinspecting for processors-have nothing directly to do with carrying out AAA's program of "balancing" production of cotton, corn, hogs, wheat and other basic commodities. These new powers are for the purpose of letting AAA extend its control over other commodities. AAA answered this charge only in general terms. Said Chester Davis in a broadcast to farmers last month: "Unless the Act can be made...
Just squeeze a few chiseling middlemen- AAA officials said that was all their amendments aim to do. But who, asked Senator Byrd; ever heard of a bureaucrat not using all the powers given him? No silver-tongued orator is Harry Byrd but he is an apple grower, the biggest east of the Mississippi, operator of 10,000 acres of Virginia orchards. Said he last fortnight...
...Hill. Significance of Harry Byrd's opposition is that many Senators and Representatives, though not Virginians, not apple growers, not farmers, are like him. They are Democrats who have not been inspired by the New Deal philosophy. The Democratic Party has 69 Senators and 319 Representatives in Congress but the New Deal never had so many. The New Deal's laws have been passed by a combination of the progressives of all parties and by Democrats loyal to the New Deal because it bears their party label. Many a Democrat has put party loyalty above his own convictions...
...Returned to committee, with instructions that it be reported back by May 12, the Bankhead Farmers' Home Corporation bill for creation of a $1,000,000,000 Government corporation to help tenants and sharecroppers buy farms. Said Virginia's Byrd: "This is the most loosely and crudely drawn measure ever submitted to the Senate...
...Byrd in the land is worth two at the Pole...