Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...floor consideration, e.g., by setting the time limits on debate, by deciding whether amendments may be made from the floor. Such a power position is made to order for lanky (6 ft. 160 lbs.), courtly Howard Smith, possessor of the bushiest eyebrows south of John L. Lewis. A Byrd organization Democrat, he is the recognized leader of House Southern conservatives, uses his committee to fight off civil rights legislation. ("I use every weapon I've got," he says. "That's why I'm here.") Since 1931 Judge Smith (he was a state circuit judge) has represented Virginia's Eighth Congressional...
Iron-grey, burly and vigorous at 62, Larry Gould speaks of penguins-Mrs. Gould and he share their home with a stuffed one-Sputniks and education with more authority than most. A topflight geologist and geographer, he was second-in-command of Admiral Byrd's 1928-30 Antarctic expedition, now heads the U.S. Antarctic program for the International Geophysical Year. Other qualifications for informed alarm: Gould is a trustee of the Ford Foundation and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, national president of Phi Beta Kappa and a member of the National Science Board...
...Governor Averell Harriman and ex-Senator Herbert Lehman). The council urged greatly expanded federal programs in social security, health, education, agriculture, public works and welfare, area redevelopment and urban renewal, did not attempt to put a price tag on the proposals. Virginia's economy-minded Senator Harry Flood Byrd-no member of the council-did. His estimate: $5 billion or $6 billion a year...
...been pretty well extinguished. Symington holds Missouri, Kennedy can count on New England, and Gore, Kefauver to the contrary notwithstanding, controls Tennessee. Lyndon Johnson certainly doesn't have to worry about Texas, and probably not very much about the rest of the Southwest. But Richard Russell and Harry Byrd will have a large voice in the direction of the South's bloc of votes, and if Lyndon puts the finger on someone whom they don't like, they will not be desultory about saying...
...Governor J. Lindsay Almond Jr. (TIME, Sept. 22) announced that if federal courts ruled against the statewide massive resistance system, which automatically closes schools before they can be integrated, he would name a commission "for the purpose of counsel and advice." Although Senator Harry Byrd, the creator of massive resistance and the commonwealth's political boss, publicly proclaimed that he would continue to fight on the old grounds, there was little doubt that the news on the editorial pages heralded a strategic retreat in Richmond toward token compliance with the U.S. Supreme Court's integration decrees. The import...