Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Maybank was not the last of the Southern aristocrats in the Senate. Virginia's Harry Byrd is still very much alive. And as Burnet Rhett Maybank was buried in Charleston's Magnolia Cemetery last week, South Carolinians could remember how deep the stream of family runs in the low country. At the graveside was Burnet Rhett Maybank Jr., 30, a rising young member of the state legislature...
...casual passerby, everything looked normal around the University of Maryland's treeless new Georgian campus at College Park last week. Fall classes had yet to begin, but in Byrd Stadium, Football Coach Jim Tatum ran his 54-man squad (Pennsylvania mining and mill-town boys outnumber the 19 home-state boys) through first practice with high hopes of repeating his undefeated 1953 season. But across campus, in an ornate, walnut-paneled office, the U. of M.'s new president, Wilson Homer Elkins, 46, held his first press conference. Said he casually: "I don't think that...
...months ago Maryland Democrats went to the polls to pick the man who would run against Republican Governor Theodore Roosevelt McKeldin this fall. Not until last week did they learn whom they had nominated. The winner: Harry Clifton ("Curly") Byrd, the University of Maryland's onetime football coach (1913-34) and longtime president...
...long delay in settling the outcome of the Democratic primary was due to a close vote and Maryland's county-unit system. Initial returns gave Byrd 80 unit votes to 72 for his opponent, Paving Contractor George P. Mahoney, who contested the election, concentrating on two counties whose seven units would have brought him victory. Last week, when the Maryland Court of Appeals upheld the validity of the contested Byrd ballots in the two counties, Mahoney conceded...
...bitter dispute would not help Curly Byrd's long-shot chances of unseating McKeldin. In 1950 McKeldin's victory was attributed to the votes of Mahoney backers who crossed over into the Republican column...