Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bairns for Byrd...
...remaining articles, however, are a little short on information, and they serve to remind the reader that, after all, U.S.A. is the N.A.M.'s publication. Perhaps the worst of the lot is Senator Byrd's un instructive and strangely familiar epic on federal expenditures. The Senator gives us a "Byrd's eye view of federal spendorama," and not content with turning this phrase, he explains how many dollars of OUR money the bureaucrats, politicians, and pinks are spending each second of the day. Beyond these gimmicks, Senator Byrd has very little in the way of analysis, discussion, or interpretation...
...Weevil's Chance. Some of the biggest stars in the Southern Democrat sky-Virginia's Senator Harry Byrd, South Carolina's Governor James Byrnes, Texas' Governor Allan Shivers, Georgia's Governor Herman Talmadge and Senator Walter George-promptly came out for Russell. All of them know that, at the moment, he has about as much chance of being nominated as a boll weevil has of winning a popularity contest at a cotton planters' picnic. Then what are they trying...
Entitled "The Welfare State and the National Welfare," the volume is a collection of essays and addresses by such outstanding Americans as Bernard Baruch, Vannevar Bush, Harry F. Byrd, John Foster Dulles, and Herbert Hoover. It is especially notable however, because it includes several of General Eisenhower's expressions on his political thought...
...Maher plans to run 15 articles a month, a lead editorial, and one condensed book. The first issue's articles range from inflation and Anglo-American relations to atomic energy and the Soviet mind, with such contributors as ex-Satevepost Editorial Writer Garet Garrett, Southern Democrat Senator Harry Byrd, General Electric's engineering boss, Harry A. Winne, Historian and Editorial Writer Gerald W. Johnson. Said Editor Maher: the magazine is "after calm discussion rather than controversy." For the N.A.M., which is often choleric, the first issue was remarkably calm. It looked as if U.S.A., rather than being...