Word: byrds
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Virginia. This seems to be the Southern state in which Stevenson is in greatest peril. In 1948, Virginia voted 41.4% Republican, plus 10.4% Dixiecrat. Eisenhower is far more popular than Dewey was in 1948, but Stevenson is more popular than Truman was. Leaders of the Byrd machine, one of the most effective (and cleanest) in the U.S., have agreed to disagree in the 1952 election. Some are working for Stevenson, some for Ike and some are following the example of the boss, Senator Harry F. Byrd, who is "picking apples" and not saying how he will vote. If Byrd comes...
...speech, billed as "Breakfast with Eisenhower." At noon in Winston-Salem, Ike spoke from a platform in front of the station to a crowd that backed up into the adjacent streets, beyond reach of his voice. In neighboring Virginia, he openly wooed the support of Senator Harry Byrd, political boss of Virginia and open enemy of the Truman Administration. "I remember reading a crack that we have too many Byrds in Congress," said Ike, harking back to a 1949 Truman remark. "Well, I disagree; I would like some more like this...
...couple of new parties sputtered and died even before the Harvard Club dinner. One called itself America First, and tried to place on the Illinois ballot electors for Gen. MacArthur and Sen. Harry Byrd. It failed. A Nebraska woman conceived another and tagged it the American Party...
...Apple Picker. From Quantico the Stevenson motorcade moved on to Richmond, where Saturday afternoon crowds on Richmond's streets gave Stevenson only a lukewarm reception. That evening at Richmond's Mosque Auditorium, Virginia's political boss, Senator Harry Byrd, was conspicuously missing from the speaker's platform. Busy picking apples, Byrd's friends said. But the audience was pleased as Stevenson invoked the magic name of Robert E. Lee and praised the Confederacy's constitution...
Bobby Shantz and Harry Byrd will continue to make the Athletics a threat in any game, but not strong enough for a real bid, and Bob Porterfield can make the Senators rugged...