Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...speech, short as it was, bristled defiance. And it had its effect. Said Virginia's Harry Byrd, the intellectual leader of the Wallace opposition: "He threatened to carry the issue to the people unless the Senate confirms his appointment [as Commerce Secretary and Federal Loan Administrator] intact. This challenge I hope the Senate will accept without equivocation or compromise...
Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd, long absent from the headlines because of his secret war duties, received the Legion of Merit in a chatty, informal White House ceremony. Cited for "outstanding services" in surveying Pacific islands, the explorer was called "Dick" by the President, who remarked that the medal was "one of the loveliest ones we have." Said greying Admiral Byrd: "Thank you, Franklin...
...lovers were moved by the revelation of a hitherto unpublished story about the third Byrd expedition's escape from the Antarctic in 1941. Hemmed in by a closing ice pack, the 26 men at the Palmer Land camp had to risk an emergency flight out in their battered Condor plane. The plane could make only two trips, would be barely able to carry the men. What to do with their well-loved sled dogs...
...Byrd's men made a hard decision. Of the 61 dogs, 34 were shot. But if the plane should crash on the second takeoff, the men would need dogs to help them try an escape over the ice. Reluctantly they buried three 50-lb. sticks of dynamite, under the snow, staked the 27 youngest and strongest dogs over the charges, attached to the dynamite an alarm clock rigged to close an electric circuit and set off the charges. It was set to go off three hours after the takeoff. The plane barely got off the ice. As they flew...
...Chinook Kennels in New Hampshire, where Admiral Byrd got the sled dogs for his expeditions, there now stands a Byrd memorial: "To All Noble Dogs whose lives were given [in] Little America ... to further science and discovery...