Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hope that, before next March, some modification of the Ruml Plan will finally become law. One pay-as-you-go bill has already been introduced in the House by Ways & Means Committeeman Donald H. McLean (Rep., N.J.). In the Senate Finance Committee, Republican members Vandenberg and Taft and Democrats Byrd and Chairman George all favor some form of pay-as-you-go. Last week never-say-die Beardsley Ruml was once again campaigning: "Nothing can be gained," cried portly, ebullient Mr. Ruml, "by arguing that people ought to have saved the tax on last year's income. The fact...
...Manhattan's Town Hall dour Wanda Landowska took her bow in a harpsichord recital which critics pronounced the finest tinkling of its kind. At Carnegie Hall a recital by dignified Pianist Egon Petri followed the recital of an indomitable U.S. lady violinist, Byrd Elliot, who perennially performs before an audience that would scarcely strain the capacity of an average front parlor. Baritone Yves Tinayre, accompanied by a troop of dramatic dancers, moaned the music of medieval French masters in a recital which one critic described as "constricted cooing...
...committeemen reeled for an hour under the impact of Paul's 33-page document, then recovered to deliver body blows of their own. Harry Byrd called the proposal the "most complicated and unworkable plan" the Treasury had submitted in nine years: "It would compel taxpayers to pay more taxes than they have income." Bob La Follette termed its provisions "heresy" and "a hell of a note." To Joe Guffey the scheme was stillborn. It "staggered" Colorado Ed Johnson's imagination. Puddler Jim Davis threw up his hands: "It is too complicated for an ordinary man like...
...could be sure what effect this week's action by Congress might eventually have on Southern politics. By holding down the vote, the poll tax has made it easy for small machines (like Senator Harry Byrd's Virginia "courthouse crowd") to run an entire State. It has also helped preserve the South's one-party system, where final results are determined in the Democratic primary, not the general election...
...Virginia's apple-cheeked applegrower Senator Harry Byrd announced that Agriculture Department chemists had concocted a sweet apple syrup to double for hard-to-get sugar and glycerine...