Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Truman to get congressional approval before sending any more than the first four divisions to Europe. Behind the move was the fine hand of Virginia's Harry Byrd, as bitter a foe of Harry Truman as any Republican, and as jealous, too, of the prerogatives of Congress. The Republicans swung in happily behind. "Too long have we permitted the executive branch to sound the tuning fork," declared Republican Robert C. Hendrickson of New Jersey...
...Daniels attributed to the President some recommendations for reforming Congress. Most notable: limiting tenure to twelve years. Daniels pointed out that such a limitation would lop off such Democratic pillars as Speaker Sam Rayburn, House Majority Leader John McCormack, Texas' Senator Tom Connally and Virginia's Harry Byrd...
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Cars & Paper. Mr. Truman's own party colleagues did a little better. Virginia's Harry Flood Byrd, a man who some day hopes to hear a Lincoln-head penny holler Uncle, wanted to fry off $9.1 billion-$200 million from the Veterans Administration, $500 million out of the Defense budget, $3.5 billion out of the $7.5 billion foreign-aid program and $4.9 billion out of the domestic-civilian sectors of the Truman budget...
...time the Shah got his set, there were already hundreds of lords & masters of the Encyclopaedia Britannica (including George III and George Washington*), and since then, hundreds of thousands more have been added. Sets have found their way into cottages and castles, to Little America with Admiral Byrd, to Labrador with Sir Wilfred Grenfell, to homes, schools and libraries all over the world. In its 182 years, "EB" has become almost a synonym for knowledge, a roving storehouse of facts that anyone can go to, and that can speak with authority on almost any subject, from A to Zygote, that...