Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Motor Carrier Claims Commission. Hook had run against Ferguson for the Senate in 1948. "The nominee is lacking in capacity," said Ferguson. Down went Hook. Then there was Martin A. Hutchinson, an able Virginia lawyer nominated to the Federal Trade Commission. Hutchinson had run against Senator Harry Byrd in the 1946 primary-Byrd's first opposition in 21 years. Byrd told the Senate that he did not want Hutchinson to be an FTC commissioner; he did not bother to discuss Hutchinson's qualifications. The Senate backed up Byrd...
...Bridges, long a sharp-tongued critic of Administration foreign policy. Sage old Charles Eaton, top Republican of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, agreed: "We've got a rattlesnake by the tail and the sooner we pound its damn head in, the better." Added Virginia's Democrat Harry Byrd, leader of the Dixie dissenters, "This is a time for unity, as we must...
...wore on, Douglas tried to knock out $200 million for flood control on the lower Mississippi River, $100 million of projects in the Ohio River Basin, $89 million for the Arkansas River Basin. Except for Delaware's John Williams and Virginia's inveterate economizer, Harry Byrd, he had almost no support. Most of his colleagues sat, exasperated...
Where is Senator Byrd...
When Humphrey got up to speak, the Senate elders, one by one, led by Harry Byrd himself, quit the floor. -Angered by the pointed snub, Humphrey shouted defiantly: "The shrinking violet has not been clipped." He still thought that the Byrd committee was "a sort of political zombie," that it claimed credit for economies that the Administration had accomplished on its own hook. Cried Humphrey: "I would not say that was patting oneself on the back. I would say that is just twisting oneself up like a pretzel and spinning and announcing to the world the greatness...