Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Slick, sleek Joe Guffey, in a press release, asserted that the Senate vote rejecting the Administration soldier-vote bill (TIME, Dec. 13) had been the work of "a combination of Northern Republicans, under the leadership of Joe Pew, and of Southern Democrats, under the leadership of Harry Byrd." He called this an "unpatriotic and unholy alliance...
Three Southern Democrats rose up in the Senate to reply, in an extraordinary spate of oratory-Virginia's Harry Byrd, North Carolina's Josiah Bailey, South Carolina's Cotton Ed Smith (see p. 14). They tore Joe Guffey to shreds, came close to out-&-out denunciation of Mr. Roosevelt. Senators Bailey and Smith talked threateningly about a new Southern Democratic Party...
...rose Virginia's Harry Byrd, who has rigorously avoided personalities in his ten years in the Senate. Senator Byrd felt moved to answer a statement made by Pennsylvania's Senator Joe Guffey. He notably ignored Senatorial courtesy, referring to the Pennsylvania Senator only as "Guffey...
...BYRD: "He [Guffey] charged that: a) northern Republicans, under the leadership of Joe Pew, and southern Democrats, under the leadership of Harry Byrd had conspired to deprive the armed services of America of the right to vote; and b) that this alleged conspiracy was the 'most unpatriotic and unholy alliance that has occurred in the United States Senate since the League of Nations for peace of the world was defeated...
...idea of saying that Harry Byrd led a conspiracy. Conspiracy against what? It was a conspiracy on behalf of the Constitution of the United States, if it was a conspiracy at all. If he led a conspiracy, I was one of the conspirators. Of course they would say, ' "Cotton Ed" Smith, that dirty dog, yes. . . .' If the people of the South organize and stand by their self-respect, if they organize and say 'We are going to vote for the man of our choice,' there will never be another Democratic President-I mean of a certain...