Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first time in history, the U.S. was getting ready to lower the ceiling on its national debt. With the blessing of Treasury Secretary Fred Vinson, the Senate Finance Committee sent up a bill to reduce the limit from $300 to $275 billion.* Crowed billion-pinching Senator Harry Byrd, watchdog of U.S. finances: "A concrete step toward the end of deficit financing...
...Sometime followers of the Republocrat line: Senators Josiah Bailey (North Carolina), Harry F. Byrd (Virginia), Peter G. Gerry (Rhode Island), Pat McCarran (Nevada), W. Lee O'Daniel (Texas), David I. Walsh (Massachusetts) ; Representatives Fritz Lanham (Texas), Carter Manasco (Alabama), John Rankin (Mississippi), Howard Smith (Virginia), Hatton W. Sumners (Texas), Carl Vinson (Georgia...
Virginia's Senator Harry F. Byrd promptly took occasion to call the trusteeship idea "absurd"-if Russia can claim and take strategic lands, why shouldn...
...Johns Hopkins professor, recommended a permanent national mediation board to sit with management and labor before future disputes reached the strike stage. ("But make no mistake-no legislation will be a cureall. . . . Leave this current crisis alone and it will solve itself-and soon.") Senator Harry F. Byrd advised his colleagues to pass a law forcing unions to incorporate, register with SEC, report their finances and election procedures, assume responsibility for any breach of contract...
Lincoln Ellsworth, 65, perennial polar explorer, was off again early in the first year of peace-perhaps the first robin of an old-fashioned explorers' spring. (Admiral Byrd had already begun to yearn aloud for the South Pole.) Explorer Ellsworth headed for the Rift valley volcanic areas in East Africa; after that, said he, would come the Antarctic again. "I just cannot keep away...