Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...knows more about surviving at the South Pole than Siple (TIME, Dec. 31, 1956), the obvious man to establish the first year-round colony in the world's deep freeze. As a Sea Scout, he went to the Antarctic 29 years ago with Admiral Richard E. Byrd, has spent four winters there since. As it turned out, Siple's buoyant personality proved as valuable as his scientific knowledge. He ran a surprisingly contented camp despite the little group's isolation, and the wearing, jet-black night of winter that was four months long. Siple's formula...
...Byrd-guns of Virginia's Democratic Party shot the Republican Party out of the sky in last week's gubernatorial election. Senator Harry Flood Byrd's machine, mobilized and primed by President Eisenhower's decision to send troops into Little Rock, called on the faithful for a demonstration of defiance to federal law. Result: an almost two-to-one victory for Democratic Gubernatorial Candidate J. Lindsay Almond over Republican State Senator Ted Dalton...
...What have we in the South done to justify these punitive measures?" Byrd asked a Richmond audience last week. "This is being forced upon us to humiliate the Southern people and perhaps destroy us. This whole business is simply to get some Nigra votes up North." Boomed ex-Governor William M. Tuck to a rally at the Danville fair: "If the Democratic ticket fails to secure a resounding victory, it will be construed all over the U.S., and in fact the world, as a victory for Warren, Brownell, Eisenhower and the National Association for the Agitation of Colored People."* Shouted...
...worked. Some of Dalton's aides have quit, and his financing is poor. Today when tall, grey Ted Dalton shakes hands with a stranger and identifies himself, he is generally eyed with hostility. His audiences frequently number fewer than 100, and infrequently listen to his warning that Harry Byrd's anti-integration laws will be clipped by the Supreme Court† and leave nothing but turmoil for Virginia. Dalton's alternative: establish a pupil-placement plan similar to neighboring North Carolina's, admit a few selected Negroes. Under such a system, says he, every Negro child...
...Dalton is almost certain to be beaten next month. The result will be a loss for the whole South-not because Dalton is Dalton or is a Republican but because Harry Byrd, who could have used his vast influence for moderation, has chosen to win his victory by preaching defiant white supremacy. Democrat Almond, in winning the governorship on such terms, will inherit a state of chaos and hatred when the Supreme Court moves against Byrd's system of legal subterfuge...