Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd, Antarctic explorer, seems to thrive on trouble, and if he got off on an expedition without something going wrong he might regard it as an ill omen. This month the Admiral starts his third trip to the Antarctic, partly backed by U. S. Treasury funds, to clinch the claims of the U. S. to some 450,000 ice-covered square miles. Last week enough mishaps befell his huge new "snow cruiser" to convince him that everything was going to be all right...
...play is rich in more than one kind of name-calling. Before the wheelchair genuflect the world's great. "Gertrude Stein" phones from Paris. "Admiral Byrd" sends penguins, "William Beebe" an octopus. "Harpo Marx" arrives for a cyclonic visit. "Noel Coward" whizzes by, stopping long enough to play a "new song" of his, a howling burlesque all about...
Such solid old-line Democrats as Carter Glass and Harry Byrd of Virginia stood together with Young Turks Minton of Indiana, Schwellenbach of Washington; the Old South's Cotton Ed Smith of South Carolina was ready to vote with the New South's Pepper of Florida. For the first time in many moons and many matters, Mississippi's Harrison and Bilbo, Utah's King and Thomas, were together. For in Washington this week were no pettifogging politicos seeking sewer projects. Every man was a Statesman...
Grizzly Dr. Harry Clifton ("Curly") Byrd, publicity-wise president of the University of Maryland, failed to welcome students to the Maryland-Virginia Traffic Policemen's Accident Prevention School. Reason: his carwas disabled in an accident...
...Admiral Byrd did not mean, of course, that one seam of coal would provide unlimited resources to the U. S. He was merely stressing the point that coal has been discovered both by the Byrd expeditions and by other expeditions ... in the Antarctic continent. . . . Coal seams up to seven feet in thickness have been discovered . . . and estimates by such men as Sir Edgeworth David and Dr. Griffith Taylor indicate that in extent the coal reserves are possibly second only to those of the U. S. (See Antarctic Adventure and Research by Dr. G. Taylor, Appleton...