Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Virginia, Democrat Thomas B. Stanley, backed by the powerful Byrd organization, defeated Republican Teed Dalton for governor in the closest race in years...
...main trouble with the Ruml plan is that it goes too far in estimating what Government investments are self-liquidating and could be handled outside the budget. A cash budget is also opposed by economy-minded lawmakers, e.g., Senator Harry Byrd, on the ground that the "fiscal illusion" of balance would open the door to greater Government spending. Actually. Congress would have the same control over spending that...
...directed by Mogens Wöldike; Haydn Society, 3 LPs). Fifty brief selections, carefully performed and recorded. The first disk begins with the constricted Gregorian chant beginning with the 7th century, goes up to 16th century instrumental dances. No. 2 takes the story from large motets by Lassus and Byrd up through early Italian opera by Monteverdi and massive 17th century organ music. The final disk contains mostly Bach and Handel works. A scholarly collection, but with plenty of appeal to the ear as well...
...endurance record, staying aloft 51 hrs. 11 min. 25 sec. Lindbergh frets, but death, accidents and delay soon begin to scratch the other entries. Two Navy pilots nose into a swamp on take-off and are killed. Chamberlin damages his Bellanca in a routine test flight. Commander Richard E. Byrd, with his Fokker and four-man crew all set, waits at Roosevelt Field for the word from the weatherman. On May loth, two days after Frenchmen Nungesser and Coli take off from Paris, Lindbergh hops from San Diego to St. Louis in the record time...
While all this was going on, Southern Democrats began throwing you alls into Mr. Mitchell's chowder. Florida's Senator Spessard Holland said he had declined an invitation to attend the dinner because he thinks the South will gain nothing there. Virginia's Senator Harry Byrd said he had not been invited. South Carolina's Governor James F. Byrnes said he would not go if he were invited...