Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ADMIRAL BYRD is the only person in the world who could have written a book like "Alone," and it is greatly to his credit and to the friends who persuaded him that he finally decided after four years of indecision to write this unbelievable record of his struggles with the bitterest elements, alone for five months at an advance base in the Antarctic. It is not so much from the man or from his writing but rather from what the man did that the book derives its greatness. Although the author's style and ideas are more sincere than brilliant...
Advance Base was originally intended to be occupied by three men not one; all the confusion that has arisen over the cause of the self-imposed isolation Admiral Byrd clears up in the first chapter. The reasons were both scientific and personal, and though they do not seem adequate considering the obvious risks involved, the more important fact remains that Byrd decided to go and go alone, Thanks to a diary, a detailed record of the events was preserved. Scientifically, important readings of temperature, barometer, wind directions and velocities were made, Personally, the story was told of a man face...
Secretary Ickes attacked Representative Smith for him. His slogan was: "A vote for Dodd is a vote for Roosevelt." But young Mr. Dodd was unknown, inexperienced, no political fireball. Mr. Smith, after four terms in the House, has a potent personal organization, allied with Senator Byrd's. He promised Virginians only that he would continue to vote his convictions, suh, as a good Virginian should. They renominated him by 3-to-1 over young Son Dodd...
Darden of being a member of Senator Harry Flood Byrd's machine, who might be anti-Roosevelt...
...killed the sales tax, substituted income and liquor taxes. With Governor Byrd's Virginia as his model, he reorganized the State government, abolishing 130 boards and commissions, consolidating 119 divisions into 22, including a new Department of Welfare. Aided by largesse from Washington, he balanced his budget, attacked and refunded the $28,000,000 State debt so that next year it will be all gone. He ended company police in the coal mines, cleaned up old State prisons. He got Kentucky to ratify the Child Labor amendment to the U. S. Constitution...