Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Economy. Senator Harry F. Byrd's committee was already hard at work on plans to slice the budget wherever fat appeared. (Many a Senator and Congressman would join in the surgery more out of distaste for New Deal bureaus than love for saving.) But there would be more oratory than knife-wielding: the budget called for cuts of $458,000,000 in nonwar expenditure, and few observers believed that Congress could raise this figure above a billion...
...food-stamp plan and trimming other expenses, the President reduced the budget for "normal" expenditures to $4,124,000,000 (36% less than in 1939). Chances are that this cut will not satisfy the Congressional economy bloc, led by Virginia's tart Senator Harry F. Byrd, which has a shrewd suspicion that many former peacetime expenditures are now masquerading in the war budget. Said the President, anticipating criticism: "I shall be glad to cooperate with the Congress in effecting further reductions...
...Harry Byrd and the economy boys will be hard put to it to slash much more from these figures. The WPA and the CCC, the Rural Electrification Commission and the National Youth Administration, are all officially dead. Finding other sources for governmental economy would be a tedious task of investigating each of the Departments and Agencies in order to see whether they could save a couple of bucks by rebending unbent paper clips. Such an investigation would probably cost as much as could be saved, and would absorb valuable time and effort in charge and counter-charge inside the sweltering...
...passed up Herbert Hoover, newly elected to put two chickens in every pot?because 1928 was the businessmen's year and Walter P. Chrysler was their 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, just back from Paris with his hopeful plan for settling Europe's troubles...
...Denied Senator Harry F. Byrd's charges of waste in Government payrolls by insisting that more than 1,500,000 of the 2,500,000 Federal employes are employed in production (in Navy yards, Government arsenals, etc.). Retorted Senator Byrd: the President had not been given "the true facts" by his subordinates; he had used "figures four months old and even then they weren't correct...