Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Having been soundly rebuked by the Senate which turned down (72 to 9) his nomination of a Virginia judge over the heads of Virginia's Senators Byrd & Glass, the President gave the Senate his version of Article II of the Constitution. Substance: the Senate's power of "advice & consent" in Presidential nominations was meant to be a consultative function of the Senate as a whole, usurped the President's appointive power if it was invoked by one or two Senate soreheads. Soreheads Byrd & Glass, along with other Constitutionalists, still maintained that the appointive power was dual...
Senatorial courtesy is the custom by which Presidential appointees "personally offensive or obnoxious" to Senators from their State are not confirmed by the Senate. Last week Virginia's tart old Carter Glass and his junior colleague, Harry Flood Byrd, found obnoxious the appointment of Judge Floyd Roberts of the Corporation Court of Bristol to a Federal District judgeship. Reason: he had "lent himself to a conspiracy," of which the other partners were Governor James H. Price and Franklin Roosevelt, to flout the Glass-Byrd patronage prerogative. The Judiciary Committee thumbs-downed Judge Roberts, 15-to-3. The Senate concurred...
Large on a 1930 National Geographic Map of Antarctica bulked the Charles Bob Mts., Commander Byrd's way of thanking one of the backers of his first South Pole expedition. For a time Charles Victor Bob bulked equally large on the Manhattan scene...
...month before Franklin Roosevelt's $8,995,000,000 1940 budget appeared, conservative Democrat Harry Flood Byrd of Virginia issued an anticipatory blast at continued deficit financing. Federal Reserve Chairman Marriner Stoddard Eccles replied to him in a letter that filled three newspaper columns (TIME, Jan. 2). Last week as Congress took a savage nibble at the President's special Relief budget (see p. 77), Senator Byrd replied to Mr. Eccles in six newspaper columns. Juiciest points of Byrd answers...
...Probable revolts against the Administration will be led by Senators Harrison on Taxation, Smith on Farm Relief, Byrd on Reorganization, Vandenberg on Social Security revision, Hatch on politics-in-Relief. A fight, hot and early, was promised over a bill which Democrat King of Utah filed, calling for the dissolution of WPA in 90 days and the return of Relief, still federally financed, to the States. Leaders of a movement to continue WPA but earmark its appropriations in Congress (contrary to President Roosevelt's wish), will be South Carolina's Byrnes and Montana's Murray, hitherto Administration...