Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Congressional opposition was already building up to the $8.5 billion appropriation. Ohio's Taft wants the money spread over two years. Illinois' Douglas wants it shaved by $1 billion. Such influential, economy-minded members as Georgia's George and Virginia's Byrd had joined in the demand for a cut. An old Administration stalwart, Texas' Tom Connally, in one of his tempestuous outbursts, accused ECA of "squeezing money out of our people and spreading it all over the world to take care of those wobbling little countries in the Orient...
Virginia's Harry Byrd drew an admission that U.S. authorities had long ago recognized the dangers of a North Korean invasion, but withdrew U.S. troops anyway. Acheson argued that all U.S. authorities, including the J.C.S. and MacArthur had approved the decision, and that it was taken because of a recommendation by the United Nations (which, he neglected to say, the U.S. initiated). Snapped Byrd: ". . . That doesn't make it an accurate or proper recommendation...
...Edward Honeycutt, a young Negro, was strapped in Louisiana's portable electric chair last week, a young couple named Mr. & Mrs. George Byrd sat among the spectators by special arrangement with St. Landry Parish Sheriff Clayton Guilbeau. The death chair had been set up in a jury room at the parish courthouse in Opelousas, and the Byrds were there because Honeycutt had been convicted of raping Mrs. Byrd in the presence of two of her children...
After the first charge, as Honeycutt's 6 ft. 3 in. frame sagged limply in the chair, Mrs. Byrd said: "I'm not nervous. I don't know why I wanted to see it. I just can't explain it." Another surge of electricity stiffened Honeycutt's body and he was dead...
Died. Lincoln Ellsworth, 71, polar explorer who used his share of a large family fortune io help finance many of his expeditions; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. In 1926, only two days after Explorer Richard E. Byrd and Aviator Floyd Bennett flew over the North Pole, Ellsworth, in the airship Norge, repeated the feat with veteran Explorer Roald Amundsen. In the 1930s he made two trips to Antarctica, claimed 381,000 square miles...