Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...poker-pal, Mon C. Wallgren, ex-governor of Washington, as head of the National Security Resources Board. An amiable mediocrity, Wallgren had no visible qualifications for the job of planning the military, industrial and civilian mobilization of the U.S. On the Senate Armed Services Committee, Virginia's Harry Byrd, one of the leaders of the rebellious Southern Democrats, joined six Republicans to turn Wallgren down...
...Films is planning to enlarge its television department. One production has already been given: In October Hugh K. Foster '49, who heads the department, showed a movie which he took on an expedition to the Antarctic with Admiral Byrd and commented...
...movie is "The Secret Land," a technicolor portrayal of Admiral Byrd's expedition to Little America from December, 1946 to April, 1947. Foster was assigned to help film the trip when Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer asked the Signal Corps to send men with Byrd...
During his stay in Antarctica on the "Operation High Jump," Foster shot over 20,000 feet for the movie. The show's cast consists for the 4,000 men from the U.S. Navy who sailed with Byrd. Robert Taylor, Robert Montgomery, and Van Heflin speak the commentary...
...Virginia, the first Republican primary in the state's history was held in the eighth congressional district, across the Potomac from Washington. Virginia Republicans, who traditionally play footie with Senator Harry Byrd's Democratic courthouse cronies, put up no candidates for local offices. Winner of their nomination for Congress: Tyrrell Krum, 48, conductor of a column on veterans' affairs for the Washington Times-Herald, who will try to pry labor-baiting, reactionary Howard Smith from his well-entrenched (18 years) congressional seat...