Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Claude Swanson was chairman of the Senate Naval Committee in 1918 (when Franklin Roosevelt was Assistant Secretary of the Navy), and ranking Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in 1932 (when Franklin Roosevelt was President-elect), but he might never have been Secretary of the Navy if Harry Byrd had not wanted a seat in the Senate and if Carter Glass had not turned down a Cabinet post. To make a Senate place for Virginia's ambitious young Boss Byrd, President Roosevelt named Senator Swanson to a Cabinet position which had often been filled by a mediocrity...
Opposed by the House as money for a "joy ride" (TIME, June 12), but shoved through with the third deficiency bill by Senate pressure, $340,000 became available last week to send Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd back to Little America, claim a lot more of it for the U. S. The far-roving mind of Franklin Roosevelt was captivated by Admiral Byrd's arguments for this venture and last week, after a map session at his desk, he ordered the expedition to proceed by early October. In on the planning were Commandant (Rear Admiral) Russell Randolph Waesche...
Testifying before a House subcommittee, Admiral Byrd made some dazzling statements : "We discovered a seam of coal down there that we think is sufficient to supply the United States for 100 years or more. This seam of coal is ... exposed along the slope of a high mountain range so that it is not necessary...
...President's revolving, self-liquidating Great White Rabbit of 1939 ($3,860,000,000 loan program), nothing was heard last week except a resolution put through the Senate by anti-Roosevelt Senator Byrd of Virginia, asking the Treasury to itemize some $8,000,000,000 of extra-Budget financing already entered into by the Government. Senator Byrd's point: the 1939 rabbit is superfluous...
...profits & losses and remove the $2,000 loss limit for corporations; 3) permit corporations to revalue upward their securities for two years, to ease their excess profits taxes; 4) permit retirement of bonds and notes below par without taxation. > (In Appropriations Committee) rejected President Roosevelt's and Admiral Byrd's request for a $340,000 claiming expedition to Antarctica. > Rejected a Senate bill authorizing TVA to sell $100,000,000 of bonds to buy utility properties; adopted instead a bill authorizing $61,500,000 of bonds and restricting TVA in its geography and accounting...