Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...league leaders will face Ellis Kinder, Mel Parnell, and Sid Hudson in the Boston series, and Harry Byrd, Alex Kellner and one other man in the season's finale with Philadelphia...
America First. For President (without his consent), General Douglas MacArthur; for Vice President (without his consent), Virginia's Senator Harry Byrd. Party Chairman Lar Daly, a Chicago businessman, has requested MacArthur to maintain "a dignified silence," but Party Chaplain E. Douglas MacArthur of Bensenville, Ill. is sure that the general, whom he claims as a second cousin, "is watching our progress with great interest." Progress to date: petition to get on the Illinois ballot rejected because it was submitted without the outside binding required...
Some important Southern leaders say that they might "go fishing" on election day. One such is Texas' Governor Allan Shivers who is deeply disturbed by the Democratic stand in favor of federal control of tidelands. Virginia's Senator Harry Byrd has not announced his support of the ticket. The prospect: little help for Stevenson from Byrd...
...nomination, the Trib said he "can't win," is a "poor creature" manipulated by "Wall Street . . . Buster Dewey the cheap trickster, and Lodge the New Dealer, who pretends to be a Republican." When the Democrats came to town, the Trib had some kind words for Senators Byrd and Russell. It fancied the idea of supporting a Democratic presidential candidate-for the first time in its 104 years-if either of the Senators was nominated. But after Stevenson was named, the Trib began to come to its senses, even though the colonel still speaks of Ike and Stevenson...
...divided them was "white supremacy," and "white supremacy" is no longer a live slogan in the U.S. One of the Democratic Convention's most important achievements was to make this fact clear. Few delegates really wanted to force the South into a walkout. Said Virginia's Harry Byrd: "We'll just sit here, and maybe they'll have to throw...