Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...When discoveries of police corruption recently scandalized the Chicago area from Cicero to Lake Forest, a Second City actress would rush onstage each night, frantically dial a number and say: "Hello, FBI? There's a policeman hanging around in front of my house." Virginia's Senator Harry Byrd is nightly impersonated in a minstrel show, puts on blackface and sings: "How I love to pick old massa's cotton." But "the thing I like most," adds Byrd, "is to take this off and be a white man." He tries-but the black will not come away from...
WITHHOLDING TAXES on stock dividends will finally pass Congress this session, if Senate Finance Committee Chairman Harry Byrd has his way. Byrd is concerned over official estimates that some $1.5 billion annually of dividend income goes unreported (tax loss to the U.S.: $400 million), has ordered committee staff to draft a tax amendment. House is traditionally in favor, has twice before passed withholding taxes...
Humphrey had arrived. If Washington entertained any doubts about it, the junior Senator from Minnesota soon dispelled them. He arrived in the capital talking, and before his freshman year was over had challenged the veracity of Virginia's prestigious Harry Byrd-right on the Senate floor. Official Washington dismissed him as a brash, flippant, pushy chatterbox. It took years to live those first impressions down. "Maybe it would have been better," Humphrey admits, "if I had sat back and waited a little...
Divorced. Richard Evelyn Byrd Jr., 39, son of the Navy's late polar explorer; by Emily Bradley Saltonstall, 39, daughter of Massachusetts' Senior Senator Leverett Saltonstall; after eleven years of marriage, four children; in Lowell, Mass...
...Johnson to consider the liberal protests, Johnson spent 20 minutes defending his Senate management. When he finished, New Mexico's veteran (since 1935) Senator Dennis Chavez stood up. "I'm a liberal," he said, "and I'm for Lyndon Johnson." West Virginia's Robert Byrd, a first-term Senator, followed. "If I've learned anything," he said, "it's that Senate youngsters are expected to keep quiet." But he nonetheless felt obliged to speak up for Johnson, who had traveled to West Virginia to campaign for him in 1958. "We liked...