Word: byrds
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...first time in 25 years, the quiet, efficient, socially backward political machine of Harry Flood Byrd had a real fight on its hands. In Virginia's genteel valleys and sun-beaten towns, politicians were actually out campaigning for governor...
...These included the President's own Council of Economic Advisers and industry's middle-of-the-road Committee for Economic Development, who were agreed that it was no time to raise taxes. The Democrats' own conservative wing, led by Virginia's penny-pinching Senator Harry Byrd, welcomed the warning of New Dealer Douglas...
Virginia's self-appointed treasury-guard, Democrat Harry F. Byrd, nagged Taft with quotes from Taft's own statements opposing a similar bill in 1943. Taft frankly said that he had been converted, that he had come to realize that some states could not afford adequate educational standards. Said he: "I do not think we should . . . refuse to give one cent for this purpose, merely because perhaps some day we shall be asked to give more...
...Little Too Far." In their effort to line up a two-thirds majority for the treaty, Connally and Michigan's ranking Republican Arthur Vandenberg might have preferred a little less candor from the Secretary of State. Many a Senate fence-straddler, like Virginia's Harry F. Byrd, was willing to buy the pact if he could dodge paying the arms bill later. Pussyfooting Tom Connally thought Acheson went "a little too far," in his answer; a Senator's only voting guide was his "conviction and conscience." Vandenberg was afraid the Senate was getting its "eyes glued...
...drive to force tighter unification of the armed services got under way yesterday among Senators looking for some way to cut the house-approved $16,000,000,000 military appropriation. Senator Harry Byrd (D-Va.) told a reporter he hopes to see a new unification bill shoved through the Senate before that body is called to pass on military appropriations...