Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...well recognized fact that many of the most able men of each party, especially the Democratic minority, are passed over for public office merely from the lack of some minor qualification. Men like Smith, and to a far greater extent, Young. Davis, Byrd, Baker and others, lose thereby the chief means of reaching the public with their much needed ideas. In this position they have dwindled into comparative obscurity, hastening the degeneration of their party and of the nation as a whole. The sole recourse for such men is a prominent, respected magazine such as the New Outlook purposes...
Last July the National Economy League was created with Admiral Byrd for temporary chairman. On its advisory committee are Calvin Coolidge, Alfred Emanuel Smith, Newton Diehl Baker, Elihu Root, General Pershing. Admiral Sims. Its broad mission is to force reductions in all governmental expenditures. Its immediate objective is to cut veterans' appropriations. Lobbyist Taylor last month spotted N. E. L. as a real foe, urged "thorough and complete organization if we are to be successful in the future...
...squareheads are doing?" The "other squareheads" had taken off from Floyd Bennett Field five hours earlier. They were Thor Solberg, 38, who was a motorcycle racer in Norway before coming eight years ago to the U. S.: and Petersen, 35, able radioman who accompanied Amundsen to the North Pole, Byrd to the Antarctic. They too were bound for Oslo. Their plane had been provided largely by Shoeman F. L. Emerson, in whose honor it was named Enna Jettick. Enna Jettick did not get as far as Harbor Grace. In a snowstorm near Darby's Harbor, N. F. the engine failed...
Harry Flood Byrd's candidacy was pressed as "The American" followed by: "Liberty and Order, Economy and Efficiency, Courage and Honesty, Equality and Progress...
...stop Roosevelt will require at least 385 votes, one-third of the convention. Delegations pledged to John Nance Gar ner, James Hamilton Lewis, George White. James A. Reed, William Henry Murray, Albert Cabell Ritchie and Harry Flood Byrd, plus his own vote, totaled 392. Could Al Smith hold the line with such a paper-thin margin? The Roosevelt men scoffed the idea...