Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Said Virginia's closefisted Harry F. Byrd: "War expenditures . . . have been unnecessarily extravagant and wasteful...
...Round column headlined: GILLETTE IS CHOSEN BY FARLEY TO BEAT ROOSEVELT IN 1944. The burden of Pearson's story was that James A. Farley had met with anti-Fourth Term Senators (including Missouri's Bennett Clark, Georgia's Walter George, Virginia's Harry F. Byrd, et al.) to choose a candidate to win the Democratic nomination from Franklin Roosevelt in 1944. The man they settled on, said Pearson, was Iowa's handsome, white-thatched Senator Guy M. Gillette...
...Navy published a new chart of Antarctica and the South Polar regions. The chart, based in part on the surveys of Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd, was the most complete ever issued for the area. Famous names packed away in this geographer's time capsule: Franklin D. Roosevelt Sea; Ickes Mountain; Cordell Hull Glacier. Eminent names: Rockefeller Plateau; Sulzberger Bay; Edsel Ford Ranges. Other names: Mobiloil Bay; Hearst Land; Paul Block...
There were dark hints of an investigation of Davis and his OWI. Virginia's tart Senator Harry S. Byrd, who has quietly been looking into OWI's wastebaskets all along, was reinvigorated. Washington news beagles were spending many precious hours tracking down the rare and fragrant rumors out of OWI, whence came smells now overripe, now sulfurous. Each day brought rumors of reorganization, employes' rump sessions, secret caucuses. Many an OWIster was quietly looking for another job. The house might not yet be afire, but it was smoking...
...haired Senator Harry Byrd's Joint Economy Committee swung a haymaker at Government "quiz mania," counted 7,025 separate questionnaires and reports sent out by Federal agencies in 18 months. Day before, Byrd had warmed up in a ruckus over OWI's new magazine Victory. He promised investigation of all "Government propaganda ventures...