Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President and Vice President, the voter would cast his ballot for the party. Presidential electors would be bound to support the party's nominees -unless a state party convention ordered them to vote for another candidate before they went to the Electoral College. The bill had Senator Harry Byrd's blessing. That night somebody raised a Confederate flag over Virginia's Capitol...
...politicians manned the ramparts all over Dixie. South Carolina's Senator Burnet R. Maybank said that his state would follow Virginia's lead. His colleague, Senator Olin Johnston, proposed that the Democrats draft Secretary of State George Marshall. Arkansas' Senator John McClellan came out for Harry Byrd. Even at the price of defeat, Georgia's Senator Walter George looked forward to a party shakeup after the election, with Southerners taking a stronger grip...
Like Admiral Byrd. The rachitic Long Island Railroad (which carries more commuters than any other U.S. railroad) bogged down most completely. Its electric trains got stalled and so did the steam locomotives sent out to rescue them. Many a passenger spent the night in an unheated coach, smoking cigarettes, dreaming of food and drink...
...boxes containing debs' frocks and fixings. A New Jersey taxi service began a search for horse-drawn pungs; it got none, but inspired hundreds to go around repeating the curious word aloud. Even the disgruntled commuter, once he got within limping distance of home, enjoyed acting like Admiral Byrd...
...feverish adherents so much as in the social elements to which the appeal goes forth. "The Good Road" plays before "invitation" audiences of people with either means or influence. Furthermore, the public figures who lend it the strength of their names include, in addition to chairman Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd, both the moneyed such as the New York Stock Exchange's Emil Sehram and the politically entrenched such as Senators Arthur Capper and Alexander Wiley as well as Presidential adviser John R. Steelman. MRA is out to win the minds of the policy-shapers and the public-opinion leaders...