Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Byrd on the Floor. Most Democrats had flocked to Johnson's side with enthusiasm. Oklahoma's big Bob Kerr and Illinois' professorial Paul Douglas indulged in a colloquy designed to heap ridicule on the opposition. Douglas asked if Kerr would like to know why a part of the Eisenhower Administration's tax policy "is like the Latin verb aio."* Kerr allowed that he would. Smirked Douglas: "It is present, it is imperfect, and it has no future...
...beneath the Democrats' fun, there was a sobering fact. The party's two finance experts, Virginia's Harry Byrd and Georgia's Walter George, thought that Lyndon Johnson's political dream was a fiscal nightmare. Johnson's plan affected several phases of tax policy, but its heart was a $20 cut for each taxpayer plus a $10 cut for each dependent (except the spouse), balanced against repeal of the Eisenhower Administration's tax credit on stock-dividend income. Johnson maintained that the proposal would add almost $5 billion to U.S. revenue. But Harry...
...Unwise & Untimely." On the Finance Committee, the key Democrats. Virginia's hardheaded Harry Byrd and Georgia's hardheaded Walter George, decided that the Humphrey road showed far more promise of getting to the right destination. Byrd and George joined the committee's Republicans to vote down the $20 tax cut, 9 to 6. Said Walter George: "A tax cut would be unwise and untimely...
This week the Democrats who wanted to take the Keyserling road were preparing to fight for restoration of the cut on the Senate floor. But there was little hope that the Senate Democrats could close ranks. Enough of them were expected to follow Byrd and George to kill a tax cut at this session...
...Sullivan, it is obviously enough in the tradition of the acknowledged masterpieces to be familiar and enjoyable ground for the G. & S. lover. In most of their operettas, for instance, there is one piece which hearkens back effectively to the music of England's "Golden Age" of Purcell and Byrd. In Ida, the lovely duet-minuet sung by Melissa and Lady Blanche becomes, not so much from the quality of the singing as from the grace and obvious enjoyment of the singers, one of the high spots of the performance. It should be noted, however, that...