Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Apple-cheeked Senator Byrd leaned far back in his office chair and beamed with satisfaction...
...been sold down the river I haven't been sold down very far," Byrd answered, expropriating a quip from the Baltimore Sun. His information, some of it admittedly two months old, came from Big Bill Knudsen of OPM, from Admiral Jerry Land at the Maritime Commission, from the Chief of Staff and from the Secretary of the Navy...
...President, he said, "has sustained my statements in the Senate as to the production of combat planes." (He had charged that July output of bombers and fighters was only 700, up only 200 from January.) Furthermore, the President had not answered Byrd's low estimate of tank production; or his charge that only 105 merchant vessels, including tankers, will be completed this year-less than the Germans sank in June or July; or his statement that only 28 major naval vessels will be added to the fleet before...
Dialogue. The President picked out four statements from Byrd's speech, gave figures of his own, implied that they refuted the whole speech. On these four points the Senator was not quite right. But neither Byrd's figures nor the President's told the whole story. How they compared...
...Byrd. Not a single tank has gone to Britain...