Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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ADMIRAL RICHARD E. BYRD...
...damned fools are going to fix it so that you'll never even be able to beat Ave Harriman," snorted Virginia's Democratic Senator Harry Byrd to his good friend, Republican Treasury Secretary George Humphrey...
...Byrd was talking about what he regards as the Administration's general political ineptness, and with special reference to its ten-year, $39 billion highway construction program. Last week ineptness led to the defeat of the Administration road bill in the Senate, which scrapped it in favor of a fiveyear, $18 billion highway program offered by Tennessee's Democratic Senator Albert Gore...
ADMIRAL RICHARD E. BYRD...
...hours later, Johnson, Byrd, Millikin and a few others began drafting a compromise amendment. They eliminated amendments favoring specific industries, but inserted an escape clause under which the President, in the interest of national security, could grant tariff protection to industries injured by foreign competition. With the compromise clause written in, the Finance Committee last week approved the trade bill...