Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...There's nobody in this room who can tell me about hard times-because I've seen them," said West Virginia's Democratic Senator Robert Byrd. The Senator explained that his mother had died when he was ten months old and that he was raised by penniless foster parents, who "never took five cents" in welfare funds. "Some people may think we don't know what it is to wear tennis shoes in the snow. I went from one end of the community to the other with a little wagon gathering up scraps saved...
...Byrd* was defending himself against charges that, as chairman of a subcommittee investigating welfare fraud in the District of Columbia, he was plucking bread from the mouths of women and children. As Byrd's probe ended last week, it was apparent that some of those women and children had been eating pretty high...
...House. Washington's welfare payments have bloated from $9,500,000 to $21,300,000 in the past seven years, and Byrd wanted to find out why. In random sampling, investigators discovered that many families on relief had one TV set and that several had two. At one appliance store at least four persons on relief were buying expensive stereophonic phonograph sets on time. Of the cases reviewed, investigators found that 78% of the persons on general relief were really ineligible for aid, as were 57% of the mothers receiving checks for dependent children. Some case studies: A mother...
...Look. Such were Byrd's findings that some of those who had criticized his investigation earlier were now coming around. Among them was the Washington Post and Times Herald, which agreed that the District should "put its house in order." And at the prompting of Senator Byrd, Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Anthony Celebrezze was planning a review of the nation's entire $4.3 billion relief program on the premise that what had happened in the District might also be happening elsewhere...
...Virginia Democrat Harry Flood Byrd...