Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...state legislature seats (132 Democratic). Like most politicians, Editor "Kilpo" read the results as a considerable victory for Governor J. Lindsay Almond Jr. and his moderate school program. Politicians also saw in the results a personal comedown for the segregationist patriarch of state Democrats, U.S. Senator Harry Flood Byrd...
...milling around just before the vote, New Mexico Democrat Clinton P. Anderson and Virginia Democrat Harry F. Byrd greeted each other with grins and back slaps. They had been fighting on opposite sides, but now the fighting was over. "Well, Clint," asked Byrd, "are you going...
...Byrd: "No, you're going to lose by three or four votes...
...explorers that scans like a picket fence of U.S. history: Robert E. Peary (to whose 1906 assault on the North Pole the society contributed $1,000), Colonel George W. Goethals (who built the Panama Canal and told Geographic members all about it), Wilbur Wright, Teddy Roosevelt, Charles Lindbergh, Richard Byrd, Billy Mitchell (who propounded his theory of airpower in the March 1921 issue), "Hap" Arnold, Chester Nimitz, Arthur Radford. Equally impressive is the Magazine's current board of trustees, e.g., U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren, Air Force Vice Chief of Staff Curtis E. LeMay, Pan American Airways...
...Bartlett and Ernest Gruening, Colorado's John A. Carroll, Montana's James E. Murray, Nevada's Howard W. Cannon, Ohio's Stephen M. Young, Pennsylvania's Joseph S. Clark, South Carolina's Olin Johnston, West Virginia's Robert C. Byrd and Jennings Randolph. *In August 1951, by a scared mare that Morse was showing at a fair in Orkney Springs...