Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Both Harry Truman and the citizenry of Independence, Mo. have become so used to his being President of the U.S. that his annual trip home for the Christmas holidays-a ceremonial which once caused almost as much stir as Admiral Byrd's return from the South Pole-went off as casually as if he were still just a plain U.S. Senator...
...Columbus, Ga., Rear Admiral (Ret.) Richard E. Byrd, 63, announced that he was just waiting for world tensions to slacken before taking off on another trip to the South Pole. This time, he said, women would be included in his crew, since they had "proved they can take...
...Streit's blast brought some blunt and immediate answers. "It isn't any of the judge's business in the first place," yelped S.M.U. Athletic Director Matty Bell, "and in the second place, these scholarships cover all sports, not just football." Maryland President Dr. Harry ("Curley") Byrd, an old footballer, frankly admitted the presence of 60 out-of-staters on undefeated Maryland's huge, 97-man football squad. "What of it?" Byrd growled. Basketball Coach Clair Bee, now acting president of Long Island University and a particular target of Judge Streit's indictment, defended...
...poor showing seemed to portend a lack of fervor toward the states' rights cause. "We must not," Byrd warned, "be lulled into a sense of false security if there is some delay in taking up these [civil rights] bills," which he called a "devil's brew." As his tie, ablaze with a Stars & Bars design, fluttered in the wet breeze, Byrd charged Truman with trying to "usurp state police power" by setting up a special FBI for the South, and with following "the primrose path to socialism...
While lambasting Truman, Byrd's main message was one of tactical caution. He said no word to encourage formation of a Dixiecrat party. "We must meet the conditions as they develop," was Byrd's theme. That meant that the anti-Truman Southerners would stay in the party, and try to win concessions at the Democratic Convention. If Truman is nominated and no concessions are forthcoming, Southern leaders might consider a candidate of their own. Their choice: Georgia's able Senator Dick Russell, who is shrewdly silent on his own attitude toward 1952. Or, if Eisenhower is nominated...