Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Secretary of the Navy. Claude Augustus Swanson, 70, got into the Cabinet only when his Senate colleague from Virginia turned down the Treasury. Behind his appointment lay the following political situation: Senator Swanson is up for reelection next year; Harry Flood Byrd was getting ready to beat him for renomination; by sidestepping into the Cabinet. Senator Swanson makes way for Harry Byrd to enter the Senate immediately by appointment, neatly saves his own old face...
...down and were turning his pockets inside out. By 1920 they were taking a billion of his money, by 1926 they had advanced to two billions, and now they are somewhere between three and four billions . . . something close to $100 [a pupil a year]. ... If, as Admiral Byrd was lately saying, the total cost of government in the United States, Federal, State and local, reached the fabulous sum of $14,000,000,000 last year, then the gogues actually made off with nearly a fourth...
With the aid of F. C. Packard '20, assistant professor of Public Speaking, T. S. McCaleb, instructor in Field Communication, who is in charge of the equipment to be used in the next expedition of Admiral Richard E. Byrd, is arranging the details of the installation of the recording outfit, which has one feature different from the usual broadcasting station. The amplification has been stepped up so that the speaker need not bother to speak directly into the microphone...
...Media, Pa., a twelvemonth ago George Sumner Nahill won $20,000 in a Loyal Order of Moose lottery. He banked $10,000, bought a $10,000 house. To wife he took Iline Thelma Byrd. All spent last week was George Sumner Nahill's $10,000. His wife divorced him, jailed him for nonsupport, because he refused to sign over his $10,000 house. He signed. Out from jail a free man on his lottery anniversary stepped George Sumner Nahill...
Lobbyist Bullitt insisted that there was a "decided difference" between the retired pay of regular Army & Navy officers and the pensions to veterans who served only briefly during the War. In Boston where he was recovering from influenza Admiral Byrd rose up to reply: "I'm proud of being a naval officer. ... I will not be muzzled, intimidated nor stopped. . . . The principle of the right of liberty itself is involved. . . . Whether or not General Harbord, General Pershing and I are on the retired list makes no difference. . . . The movement will sweep forward...