Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President's wife, she replied frankly: "What American woman wouldn't want her husband to be President?" The Savannah (Go.) Morning News went her one better, proposed a national conservative coalition ticket with Eisenhower as presidential candidate and Virginia's economy-minded Democrat, Senator Harry F. Byrd, as his running mate. Kansas' new interim Senator Harry Darby, a Republican, said that Ike was highly regarded in his home state of Kansas, but "any potential candidate might find himself in bad shape if he waited too long to declare himself." And in Key West, Fla., where...
...recently put it into storage and purchased a 1928 Rolls-Royce. Since buying the English car a month ago, Osgood has had it in Byrd's Garage in Cambridge. As his roommate explains the situation, "It's not that there's anything wrong with it. It's just that Mr. Byrd likes Rolls-Royces and we can't get the damn thing away from...
Among the composers represented will be Inchois, Dufay, Byrd, Campian, Monteverdi, Tomkins, Machaut, di Lasso, and Josquin des Pres...
...best be guaranteed by letting the states do their own housecleaning. Virginia's proposal to repeal the poll tax was defeated by a majority of nearly four to one. But many organizations which wanted to abolish the tax-including church, labor, Negro and veterans' groups-fought the Byrd machine's proposal as complicated and dishonest. They feared that the blank-check authority it granted the Byrd-controlled legislature to set up new voting requirements might prove more harmful to their cause than the present $1.so-a-year poll tax. ¶In Texas, a straight anti-poll...
...with prospects strong for going deeper into the hole. Guesses on the budget deficit by the end of fiscal 1950 next June 30 ranged from $3,000,000,000 by an administration expert to $7,000,000,000 by Senator Harry Byrd (D.Va...