Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...them. Nobody could. As president of the Alexandria (Va.) National Bank, as owner of a money-making Virginia dairy farm, as organized labor's hair shirt in Congress, the 59-year-old Alexandrian serves what Virginians call The Organization -the "courthouse crowd" machine of Senator Harry F. Byrd...
...hook and at risk of his job-the No. 1 drumbeater for the all-out war expansionists in their fight with OPM slowpokes. In the days when OPM's Bill Knudsen assured President Roosevelt that production was 100% good, and Virginia's tart Senator Harry F. Byrd shouted that it was 100% bad, Coy knew that Byrd was closer to the truth-and said so all the way to the top. For this he went deep into the doghouse for a while, but he finally won. OPM gave way to WPB; the expansionists took over...
...faculty for possible military use fulness, struck a surprisingly rich vein : e.g., Astronomer Edward A. Fath, who turned out to be one of the foremost U.S. experts in celestial navigation; Geographer Laurence McKinley Gould, a top-notch map man and navigator who was second in command of Admiral Byrd's first Ant arctic expedition; Physicist Charles...
...with a big-time literary know-it-all's attempts to bring the mountain to Mohammed while he undergoes a forced period of convalescence at the home of a hapless Ohio family to whose home he had gone for dinner. Between conducting benefits for delinquents, harnessing penguins from Admiral Byrd, and attempting to run the affairs of his unwilling host, our hero has a busy time for himself and all concerned, and furnishes an hilarious hour and a half for his audience...
Acidly Senator Byrd remarked the fact that Chicago's Jack M. Willem had been made coordinator of bowling. Icily he claimed: "Mr. Willem, as national bowling coordinator, I understand, is authorized to undertake a national campaign to recruit 25,000,000 men, women and children for regular attendance at bowling alleys. Mr. Willem has been identified to me as an executive of the Stack-Goble Advertising Agency, which handles the account of the Brunswick-Balke-Collender Company. I am informed the company holds a virtual monopoly on the manufacture of bowling alleys, balls and pins...