Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Senate that are at stake in the 1958 election, less than half are held by men who fit Eisenhower's definition of Modern Republicanism. Ike would have no more misgivings about backing Barry Goldwater than a Democratic President would have in endorsing Virginia's Harry Byrd. But Ike's struggle will come in swallowing some others in the 21, e.g., the party's three Senate Neanderthals, Molly, Jenner and Joe: i.e., Nevada's George W. Malone, Indiana's William Ezra Jenner and Wisconsin's Joe McCarthy. Both Malone and Jenner (who already...
FAST TAX WRITE-OFFS are expected to be stopped soon. Congress and Treasury Secretary Humphrey are lining up behind Senator Byrd's bill to end write-offs except for plants to produce new weapons for which present facilities are unsuitable. Byrd claims Treasury loses billions...
...varsity tennis team enjoyed one of its most successful southern trips in recent years, as it swept all seven of its matches from the University of North Carolina, Duke, Navy, the Byrd Park Tennis Association, and the Country Club of Virginia...
...varsity also downed the Country Club of Virginia, 8 to 1, and topped the Byrd Park Tennis Association...
Even with Humphrey lending congressional cutters aid and comfort, the total cuts in the budget will certainly be a lot less than Byrd's $6.5 billion, proving again the old rule that the snap of Congress' scissors is sharper than the snip. Foreign aid seems sure to be slashed unless the President comes to its rescue. But on the domestic front, indiscriminate congressional pork-barreling, logrolling, and horse-trading are almost certain to add some unnecessary fat, partly making up for whatever fat-and lean-is trimmed...