Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rest, there was Missouri's Senator Harry Truman (who might help carry his Midwest border state); Speaker Sam Rayburn (who should please the South); Virginia's Senator Harry Byrd (who might attract a stray conservative vote); Senate Leader Alben Barkley, Economic Stabilizer Jimmy Byrnes, WMC Boss Paul McNutt and even such outsiders as Utah's Senator Elbert Thomas and Tennessee's Governor Prentice Cooper...
...G.O.P. Convention had attracted a swarm of moths, buzzing and beating their wings. Some appeared before Taft's committee; others simply hired a hall. A handful of Democratic malcontents, grandiosely naming themselves the American National Democratic Committee, assembled on the fringe of the Convention, trying for a Byrd Bricker ticket, but died of avoidance. "General" Jacob S. Coxey, sans army, argued for his own free-wheeling fiscal plan. Gerald L. K. Smith, followed by a shrill covey of "We the Mothers," took over the Stevens ballroom while the Chicago Symphony orchestra was tuning up on the stage. Smith...
...When inducted, the Army examiner told me ... that [home service] men would be sent over the pond as soon . . . as necessary. Logically then I do not see any sense in doing any more than necessity calls for. . . . Now if Admiral Byrd was to come and ask for volunteers to accompany him on an Antarctic expedition ... I would jump at that type of adventure. Just as in rowing, it seems my temperament is such that where I can punish myself ... it is just fine and dandy. But when it comes to handing it out, I just cannot...
...program will begin with duets from baroque cantatas by Buxtehude and Schutz. Music for the Roman Church will be presented next with selections from the works of Allegri, Byrd, and Mozart. American and Russian choruses by Randall Thompson and Gretchaninov and choruses from the Bach Mass will complete the evening. Admission to the program is free...
...Missouri's Harry Truman are independent voters and thinkers; neither has much influence on the floor. Montana's Burt Wheeler, diehard Roosevelt hater, is a formidable individual fighter. But the real leaders are Kentucky's Barkley, Georgia's Walter F. George, Virginia's Harry Byrd, North Carolina's Josiah Bailey, Alabama's John Bankhead, Tennessee's Kenneth McKellar and Texas' Tom Connally. These are all veterans who feel that the deference due their long Party service has been withheld by Franklin Roosevelt and his brain-trusters...