Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...passed up Herbert Hoover, just elected President, because that year was the businessman's year and Walter P. Chrysler was his symbol. When Business crashed in 1929 we passed by Hoover again, skipped over Explorer Byrd and Peace-Pacter Kellogg in favor of Owen D. Young, back from Paris with his plan for settling Europe's troubles under...
...coming inaugural. The 1933, 1937 and 1941 inaugurals cost roughly $47,000 each-plus the expense of Pennsylvania Avenue reviewing stands and White House receptions. This year, a top figure of $25,000 had been set by the Congressional Inaugural Committee, headed by Virginia's apple-cheeked Harry Byrd, famed far & wide for his penny-pinching...
With his irony aimed squarely at Senator Byrd (who did not want Term IV), the President made an announcement. The Jan. 20 inaugural would be a frugal, unpretentious little ceremony held on the south portico of the White House. Why, said Franklin Roosevelt happily, the whole thing could be done for about $2,000-a mere 10% of Senator Byrd's extravagant maximum...
Three of Mississippi's nine Democratic electors suddenly announced that they would cast their votes for Harry Byrd, fourth was ready to follow suit. And it was too late, apparently, to do anything much about it. While there was yet time (before September 7), New Dealers had not put a pro-Roosevelt list of electors on the ballot. Mindful of the Texas fracas, Governor Thomas L. Bailey had assured Mississippi that all nine electors promised to support the Roosevelt-Truman ticket. But last week, long after the state's Sept. 7 deadline, the four anti-Roosevelt electors apparently...
...very popular dances in honor of our sisters under the braid from Radcliffe saw a full and gay house. The usual group of lads from the Mid-Off, School were there, supplemented by others of their lupine ilk. Of interest to Co. 3 was the appearance of Kenny Byrd who drew his proboscis from within his Memo and showed the girls his Lone Star style. The man's a positive Romeo on the dance floor. Then, too, there were Cerf, Andrews and Brokenshire all waiting for Honest Tom Gaimes--and incidentally...