Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Buck Byrd rides again," cracked Washington newshawks. Down the warpath, sure enough, padded Economizer Harry Byrd of Virginia, his apple cheeks stained winesap-red with indignation. He was still after the scalp of OCD; and he was hot on the trail. He had discovered that OCD had still stranger captives in its tepee than Dancer Mayris Chancy (resigned...
...popped a face-to-face verbal brawl between Virginia's pinchfist Harry Byrd, hot opponent of pensions, and Wyoming's Joseph O'Mahoney, who stressed the fact that he had been "absent" when the bill passed. O'Mahoney roared that Congress was being "smeared" as a "conglomeration of grab-seeking individuals.'' Shouted Byrd: "I have never smeared the members of Congress. . . . The Senator shows ignorance...
...buried in a general civil service pension bill, had passed the House without a word of debate, without a roll calla Congressional device often used to avoid later embarrassment. In the Senate, silent acquiescence had been spoiled by the noisy opposition of Virginia's veteran pinchfist, Harry F. Byrd. Their names were writ large on the record...
...Mary Jeanne Byrd, representative of the consumers' division of the Office of Price Administration, called upon college women to enroll in consumer courses to develop economical hobbies...
Virginia's economy-minded Senator Harry F. Byrd pointed out that the bill could mean pensions up to $4,175 a year for life on a few dollars of investment, that Congress seemed to be grabbing quids without a quo. But the idea of pensions for Congressmen is not without some consolation for taxpayers...