Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week, the talk was that they were pessimistic, that next June 30 would see the first balanced budget in five years. If so, tax cuts might be in store for the U.S. As a result, a hot debate is bubbling up. Last week Virginia's Democratic Harry Byrd, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, said flatly that he would fight a cut in taxes. But Democrats are not in agreement: Georgia's powerful, middle-reading Senator Walter F. George favors tax cuts for low-and middle-income groups if the U.S. swings into the black...
Forging his way across the wilds of Washington, D.C., intrepid Rear Admiral (ret.) Richard Evelyn Byrd, 66, who always reached his goal in his dashes to the North and South Poles, showed up at the local Columbia Broadcasting System offices and proclaimed his readiness to record an interview about "Operation Deepfreeze," his new Navy expedition to Antarctica, due to get under way next month. CBS welcomed him warmly, invited the admiral to cool his heels while it explored its program schedules. Half an hour later, it developed that the famed explorer had missed his bearings. Near by, the Mutual Broadcasting...
...Richards, he is now hitting around .270; his pegs to second scoot low and fast; he handles his pitchers with skill. And the pitchers have responded. Newcomer Dick Donovan has racked up a 13-3 record. Veteran Billy Pierce, pitching tight ball, has won 7 and lost 6. Harry Byrd, a castoff Oriole...
...Robert Kennon, casting about for candidates more to his liking than-Adlai Stevenson (whom he refused to support in 1952), named Ohio's Governor Frank Lausche and Deputy Secretary of Defense Robert Anderson, a Texas Democrat, as possibilities. Kennon placed Lausche "in a class with men like Senator Byrd, Governor Allan Shivers and former Governor James Byrnes...
...appropriations. The program would have been placed outside the annual appropriations control of Congress, a surrender of power unlikely to appeal to Congressmen. Also, at George Humphrey's insistence, the road-building costs would not have been figured in the national debt. ("The end of honest bookkeeping," snapped Byrd...