Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Byrd Urges Changes...
WASHINGTON, May 1--Sen. Byrd (D-Va.) recommended today that the Eisenhower administration get a new budget director and cut its spending by eight to nine billion dollars next year...
...Byrd, the economy-minded chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, denounced the "squandering" of public money in a speech before the 45th annual meeting of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. He was warmly applauded...
Afterward Byrd told newsmen he was not calling for the resignation of Budget Director Percival F. Brundage--"that's up to the President." But he added: "I think Mr. Brundage has made a failure of his present budget...
...surprised at the famous people who ride these boats--show business stars, Red Sox players. Richard Byrd--the Admiral, you know--after he had come back from sailing all around the Antartic and the South Pole, what did he do? He rode the boats with his grand daughter every Sunday. Shirley Temple too, when she was a little girl. We don't keep a guest book or anything like that, but there have been quite a few big names...