Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Squat, barrel-chested, Norwegian-born Bernt Balchen was one of the great U.S. peacetime heroes. He began flying more than 20 years ago, piloted Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd across the Atlantic in 1927 and over the South Pole in 1929. Last week Bernt Balchen, now a 42-year-old U.S. Army colonel, was back in a hero's role again-this time in barren, ice-capped Greenland...
Virginia. Labor was out to purge dour, union-baiting Congressman Howard Worth Smith; so were the New Dealers who live in his district and work across the river in Washington. But the primary showed that Virginia's famed "Courthouse Crowd" (the Harry Byrd political machine) was still in the saddle. Smith won the Democratic renomination...
Senator Harry Byrd, the apple-cheeked Virginia apple grower who has staked his political future on his reputation as a pinchfist, last week unloosed a new array of figures. Congress has appropriated and authorized $205 billions for war. Of this incomprehensible vastness, about $163 billions have not been spent. At the present spending rate ($4,494,000,000 in July), the fallow $163 billions will take two years to spend. His point: Congress stands to lose control of spending, because the unspent balances amount to blanket appropriations; taking into account taxes, war appropriations and non-defense spending, it is inevitable...
Patriot, adventurer and scalawag, McGuinness has run rum into the U.S., guns into Ireland for the I.R.A. and into Morocco for the Riffs. In the days of the Trouble he rescued Frank Carty, now government whip, from Londonderry jail, later accompanied Admiral Byrd to the South Pole...
...Silliest kudos (awarded in 1939): Beaver College's "Doctorate of Fortitude and Faith" to Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd; Newark University's "Doctorate of Canine Fidelity" to Bonzo, a Seeing...