Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Entering into the spirit of the jest, the Democratic National Committee rushed around to tell five conservative Democratic Senators?Glass and Byrd of Virginia, Tydings of Maryland, Gore of Oklahoma, Bailey of North Carolina?that they were accused of being in league with the League, an accusation which no one had made. Promptly all five issued ringing denials which were so much good grist for the Democratic Committee mill...
...political stamping ground but he has lived so long across the Potomac from his Washington law office that he is now eligible to become a Virginia voter. But neither Mr. Hurley nor any other Virginian worth a hoot would make the race. So the Republicans gave up. Mr. Byrd will go back to the Senate for six more years, not by election but by default...
Incandescent streaks in the night sky which scientists call meteors are caused by atmospheric friction against bits of matter, some as small as peas, falling from outer space. It has been night for two and a half months at Little America, base camp of the second Byrd Antarctic Expedition, and sometimes the air is extraordinarily clear. At such favorable times Dr. Thomas Charles Poulter, on leave from Iowa Wesleyan College, has had a crew of men recording meteors. Four men sit hour after hour inside a glass dome mounted in the roof of a shack. When one spies a falling...
...farmers. Alabama's Senator Black: This man . . . has brains. He has been charged with it. ... He has dared to raise his voice in favor of old age pensions. . . . Treason! Treason! Let him be taken to the stake! Let the inquisition be turned upon him! Virginia's Senator Byrd: I contend that he has committed illegal acts which he is asking the Congress of the U. S. to ratify. ... It is inconceivable to me that a man can make a speech in which he says certain affirmative things and then say "I did not mean what I said...
...Wallace's handsome right-hand man presented himself, but the time he spent upon the stand was hardly comfortable. His experience as a dirt farmer consisted chiefly of having managed his father's apple, peach, plum, cherry and pear farm during summer vacations from college. When Senator Byrd began to question him about his radical beliefs, he twisted and dodged. Yet he was saved from any real embarrassment by the conduct of the hearing. A partisan crowd filling the room applauded, yelled, booed, shouted "We want Tugwell!" and "Hurrah for Byrd!" The Senators were no more restrained. When...