Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Some Laffoon colonels: Tom Mix, Jack Dempsey, Louis McHenry Howe, Graham McNamee, Richard Evelyn Byrd, Morton Downey, Bebe Daniels...
Harvard is represented by two men on the Richard Byrd expedition to Little America. Stanley D. Pierce '33, an engineering student, left Monday morning with the ship "Bear of Oakland," as Assistant Communications Engineer. Thomas S. McCaleb, Instructor in Geographical Exploration will leave with the second boat which departs next week, and will travel as far as Canal Zone with the party...
...long ere 1921 that he, his brother & Jimmie Byrd built up the Supermarine Aviation Works-not "Motor Co."-at Southampton...
Harry Flood Byrd, Virginia's junior U. S. Senator, was not a candidate for his old job as Governor of the State in last week's Democratic primary. Nevertheless he found himself the major issue in a three-cornered campaign for that office. The candidates were: Norfolk's Joseph T. Deal, a onetime Representative, Louisa's W. Worth Smith Jr., a State Senator, and Tazewell's George Campbell Peery. Because Democrat Peery was favored by Senator Byrd, Messrs. Deal and Smith centred their fire on the "Byrd machine," lambasted the Senator's "boss rule...
...there was any other issue than Harry Byrd's old dominion over the Old Dominion, it was the sound state of Virginia finances. These Candidate Peery solemnly vowed to carry on. Born 59 years ago on his father's farm in the southwest corner of the State, George Peery plowed, clerked in a store, taught school, studied law under John William Davis at Washington & Lee. The 9th Congressional District in which he lived had been under the Republican thumb of the Slemps, Father Campbell and Son Bascom, for 25 years. In 1922 Democrat Peery defeated the Slemp candidate...