Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jefferson Day dinner in Washington onetime Governor Harry Flood Byrd of Virginia, firm teetotaler, proposed a Constitutional amendment modifying or repealing the 18th Amendment, ratification to be by a majority of the electors of three-fourths of the States. Two days later Bishop James Cannon Jr. approved the Byrd plan before a meeting of the Anti-Saloon League at Richmond. Day after that Secretary of Agriculture Arthur Mastick Hyde returned from the Missouri State Republican convention and endorsed that body's appeal that Congress call a national Constitutional convention on Prohibition...
...between the Ross Sea and the Weddell Sea, three-quarters of which has never been seen by man. Principals will be Explorer Lincoln Ellsworth, inactive in Arctic or Antarctic exploration since his friend Roald Amundsen lost his life seeking General Umberto Nobile in May 1928, and Pilot Bernt Balchen (Byrd transatlantic and South Pole nights). The expedition plans to leave New York in September 1933, sail to a base at Framheim on the Bay of Whales, from there fly east without stop over a 1,450-mi. route, then back again, bisecting the Antarctic Continent. Purposes: 1) to determine topography...
...program for the Plymouth concert tomorrow will include the following numbers! "Hallelujah Chorus," by Beethoven (to be sung by the combined choruses); "I Will not Leave You Comfortless," by Byrd; "Gently Johnny," English Folk song; "Choruses from the 'Mikado,", Sullivan; "Fire, Fire, My Heart," by Thomas Morley; and "To Thee Alone Be Praise," by Bach...
Spectators. Admiral Byrd said he was looking for Norwegian ski-runners for his next polar expedition. Mayor James John Walker of New York said he was "recuperating." Mrs. Alfred Smith congratulated Mrs. Shea, wife of the town butcher whose son won the 500 & 1,500-meter skating championships...
...Roosevelt candidacy for President was so far advanced last week that its managers were already discussing swaps and trades to put their man over. There was a tentative casting about for a vice presidential running mate. Perhaps it would be Harry Flood Byrd of Virginia. Or then it might be Governor George White of Ohio who would get his State's 52 votes on the first ballot. Opponents of Governor Roosevelt's nomination were making no visible progress uniting on one of the other candidates in the field. And a full field it was, with a great assortment...