Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Senator at least is having a go at the challenge. For the past
three years, Virginia's Harry F. Byrd has submitted an annual budget of
his own, prepared by a four-man staff which works on it the year round.
Last week Byrd put his plan for 1952-53 into the Congressional Record.
It would chop the President's budget by $8.6 billion "without impairing
a single essential function." Main suggestions:
...labors of his little staff, able Harry Byrd had to cover vast areas with vague-though sensible-generalizations. Sample: "It is doubtful whether anyone outside the military establishment will contend seriously that the armed services are not 10% inefficient in their utilization of civilian manpower." Nevertheless, the Byrd budget will be useful, as it has been in the past, when Congress begins tilting with Truman's $85.4 billion monster. Its understandable shortcomings demonstrate once again that it is high time for Congress to create a technical staff of its own to meet the creature in equal battle...
...gentleman pictured by TIME [Dec. 31] as Maurice Hutcheson, son and successor to the president of the Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners, is actually Martin Ashton Hutchinson, Richmond lawyer and leading opponent of Virginia's Byrd Machine...
Oldtime Airman Bert Acosta, 57, headliner of the '20s, turned up in a Manhattan restaurant, down on his luck and ill with tuberculosis. Whisked off to a hospital, he got a get-well letter from Rear Admiral (ret.) Richard E. Byrd, who flew across the Atlantic after Charles A. Lindbergh in 1927, with Bernt Balchen (now an Air Force colonel) and Acosta as copilots...
...others." To help him accomplish his goals, said Stassen, he intended to call on such men as Douglas MacArthur (for Western Pacific problems), Bernard Baruch (for economics), Dwight Eisenhower (for Western Europe), Herbert Hoover (for Government reorganization). Ralph Bunche (for the United Nations), Democrats Jim Farley and Senator Harry Byrd (for liaison with the Democrats...