Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Senators-elect had graduated from the House. The seat of Virginia's late Carter Glass went to veteran Democratic Representative A. Willis Robertson, a disciple of economy-minded Harry Flood Byrd. Idaho's conscientious, isolationist Henry Dworshak moved up a notch after four terms as a G.O.P. Congressman...
...Navy is bringing out of obscurity the best-known living arctician: Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd. Now 58, looking more greyly senatorial than his senatorial brother, Dick Byrd will have technical control of the Navy's trident expedition. Direct commander of Task Force 68 will be lean, bouncy Captain Richard H. Cruzen (No. 2 to Byrd and skipper of the Bear in the 1939-41 foray). He will have under him twelve ships in three groups, to cover the widest possible area in the short season of light. When a base is set up on the Ross Shelf...
...outside Virginia had bet on flop-eared, wing-collared Representative Howard W. Smith to succeed to the Senate seat of the late Carter Glass. Howard Smith, archfoe of labor unions, was a national figure, openly sought the post and was a member in good standing of Senator Harry F. Byrd's all-powerful state machine...
...Democratic Convention in Richmond last week Senator Byrd advertised his neutrality He could afford the unusual luxury: all seven contenders for the Senate seat were dead true to the boss...
...Virginia, apple-cheeked Harry F. Byrd, opposed for the first time since he went to the Senate in 1933, won, over Martin A. Hutchinson, Richmond lawyer, silently backed by the C.I.O...