Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gave Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd a new special medal-a gold star to be attached to the Distinguished Service Medal he was awarded in 1927 for flying the Atlantic. Byrd, owner of all U. S. Government medals, had to unpin several to make room for the new star, won for his Antarctic surveys...
...Organized an Aviation Division, with 30 pilots for a starter, including Rear Admiral Byrd, Bernt Balchen. Clyde Pangborn, Roscoe Turner, to publicize the Committee with a nationwide air tour...
Many a delegate had no objection to this aim, but they had many an objection to Harry Hopkins. Still, it was Hopkins or nothing. Some got drunk, some went home (one of these was Virginia's apple-cheeked apple grower, Senator Harry Flood Byrd). But most went around to Hopkins' headquarters, there meekly, glumly, sadly or rebelliously surrendered. Over their heads the shrewd, cool Secretary of Commerce held one awful threat: one false move out of the Convention and your only candidate won't run. Then where...
...place of honor in his Rockefeller Center mural to Lenin. Last week a similar rumpus flurried up when the figure of Joseph Stalin was discovered in a WPA mural at Brooklyn's Floyd Bennett Field. Keeping Stalin company were two little-known Leftist aviators lined up alongside Byrd, Lindbergh, Earhart; a U. S. Navy hangar whose white star insignia had become the red star of the Soviets...
...that he was "no peace-at-any-price man." MRA, he added firmly, was "above party, class, creed, point of view or personal advantage. Like electric light, it goes everywhere." Following the usual Buchmanite technique, MRA headquarters issued a list of current MRA "endorsers."-Among them: President Roosevelt, Admiral Byrd, Secretary of War Woodring, Secretary of the Navy Edison, Speaker Bankhead, David Dubinsky (International Ladies Garment Workers), Dan J. Tobin (International Brotherhood of Teamsters), Paul...