Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...campaign to unionize the Southern cotton mills," he set 3,000 strikers & friends to lusty cheering by suggesting that they return to work in the mills and arbitrate their differences with the company afterwards. He even went so far as to suggest that either Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd or Virginia's onetime Governor Harry Flood Byrd act as public arbitrator. His prime stipulation for peace: the workers' right to remain mem bers of the A. F. of L.'s textile union...
...Another favorite bludgeon is a fire-extinguisher, often applied to students who "freeze" the controls. According to a legend popular among airmen, Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd had to use similar tactics when he discovered that brain-fogged Pilot Bert Acosta was stubbornly steering a course "back to America" after they had reached the coast of France. Biographer Charles J. V. Murphy (Struggle: The Life of Commander Byrd) delicately pictures Acosta collapsing of his own accord, while Byrd stands reluctantly brandishing a flashlight as a bludgeon...
...smoke-belching building or group of buildings surrounded by straggling rows of little dwellings. At Winston-Salem, east of the course, rises the Camel Cigaret Factory. Then the course goes via Appomattox over the red clay farmlands and scrub forests of eastern Virginia to Richmond's Richard E. Byrd Field. An hour later the plane slips into Hoover-Washington Airport. Here the pilot makes a careful check of weather ahead: fogs from the Chesapeake Bay and Delaware River may be wet.-Setting out again the plane cuts halfway between the Capitol and Washington Monument...
...this subject unless it is taken up by Congress Best financial opinion is unanimous that to raise and pay to veterans $2,775,000,000 would retard, not hasten prosperity. Rather, let the people who now have the $2,775,000,000 spend it instead of hoarding.-ED. Byrd Brother 1. Lindbergh In-Law Sirs: "Ohio's Bulkley" does appear a strong prospect for the next Democratic Presidential nomination (TIME, Nov. 24), but even stronger looms Virginia's famed ex-Governor Harry Flood Byrd. No cigar chewer, no derby hat donner, nor "thumbs-in-the-vest politician...
...never received full fame for his exploits. "To give Smith his rightful place in history," Liberty magazine last week published a collection of testimonials, solicited from 26 outstanding airmen by Aviation Writer Richard Carroll. Under the heading "They Call Him Daddy." appeared the pictures and comments of Atcherly, Byrd, Chamberlin, Cobham, Doolittle, Hawks, Rickenbacker, von Gronau, many another crack flyer-all lifting peans of superlative praise for Kingsford-Smith. Some, like "Al" Williams, called him the "outstand-ing pilot of the age." Others more conservative, like Germany's Herman Koehl, expressed their "greatest admiration." A conspicuous paragraph...