Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Speeches. Mrs. Eleanor Bolling Byrd (mother) : "Next time you start on any expeditions someone is going to chloroform...
...John Huston Finley of the New York Times: "Your fame must already have reached the Gates of the Day of Judgment. Admiral Byrd is Ulysses; Rusell Owen Homer...
Silver bowl, from 12,000 persons of and near Winchester, Va., Byrd family homestead...
...With Byrd at the South Pole (Paramount). No matter what the scientific value of the Byrd expedition, there is no doubting the fact that Byrd's two photographers, Joseph Rucker and Willard Van der Veer, did some epic work. They show you clearly what an exploration party is like: men dealing minutely with a great isolation, making laborious preparations against hypothetical crises, living every day so as to come a step nearer an illusory goal. Pushing past the Ross Barrier (wall of ice guarding Antarctica) to and over the Queen Maude Mountains, Byrd and his men moved...
Birthday. Mayor James John Walker, of New York. Age: 49. Date: June 19. Birthdate speech: "It's a good thing that Dick Byrd is coming to take the center of the stage" (Manhattan's Byrd welcome fell on the same...