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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thus the Senate last week upped the House bill to a full billion dollars. The economy promises of Republicans & Democrats alike melted in the warm Christmassy glow of giving presents to the farmers. Only real economy champions: Virginia's Byrd, Ohio's Taft...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FISCAL: The Senate Loves the Farmer | 4/1/1940 | See Source »

Pennypincher Byrd, citing this situation, took a vicious cut at the sugar lobby, moved to apply the general $10,000 limit to sugar producers. Crushed, 46-23, he tried for a $50,000 limit, was crushed again, 37-27. Only argument for the huge subsidies was fuzzy : that Hawaiian & Puerto Rican producers, stripped of their fat subsidies, might get miffed, abandon the control program, ruin small domestic producers; i.e., that benefits must be paid foreign producers to persuade them to let U. S. producers exist. No one could understand this; but the Senate has always understood the sugar lobby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FISCAL: The Senate Loves the Farmer | 4/1/1940 | See Source »

Thus Mr. Hatch's foes included Virginia's Glass & Byrd, bosses of The Old Dominion's tightly controlled courthouse crowd; Mississippi's Bilbo & Harrison, Alabama's Bankhead & Hill; Arkansas's Caraway & Miller, South Carolina's Byrnes & Smith, Nevada's Pittman, Oklahoma's Lee & Thomas-all of them members of powerful State organizations, and therefore mighty fighters for the status...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Senate Comes Clean | 3/25/1940 | See Source »

...Refused in committee to approve another $250,000 appropriation for the Byrd Antarctic Expedition, now in Antarctica. Reason: the committee had been misinformed last year as to how long it would have to go on putting up cash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Work Done, Mar. 11, 1940 | 3/11/1940 | See Source »

Antarctica was in the news last week. In Antarctica itself, Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd was starting a 1,000-mile trek from the Bay of Whales. In Philadelphia was celebrated an antarctic centenary-the discovery of the Antarctica Continent by Charles Wilkes. To observe this anniversary, Philadelphia's well-heeled American Philosophical Society assembled a group of seamy explorers and scientific greybeards to review a century of U. S. polar exploration. They dined sumptuously (food from Holland's, Philadelphia's famed Negro caterers), but their talk was of privation and of hungry men: Wilkes, Kane, DeHaven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Tough Guys | 3/4/1940 | See Source »

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