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...Word spread in the press that United Mine Workers' ex-President John L. Lewis would never forgive Kennedy for his role in passing the 1959 Landrum-Griffin labor-reform bill (called Kennedy-Landrum-Griffin in the UMW Journal). And West Virginia's freshman U.S. Senator Robert C. Byrd, a strong Lyndon Johnson man, announced openly: "If you are for Adlai Stevenson, Senator Stuart Symington, Senator Johnson or John Doe, this primary may be your last chance to stop Kennedy. I'm voting for Humphrey...
CAREFREE 1928 was a year of peace, prosperity, bootleg booze and "whoopee." Commander Richard E. Byrd set out on his first Antarctic expedition, and Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly the Atlantic. Thornton Wilder won a Pulitzer Prize for The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Warner Brothers released the first all-talking picture, The Lights of New York, and Walt Disney produced his first Mickey Mouse cartoon, Plane Crazy. In the World Series, the New York Yankees walloped the St. Louis Cardinals in four straight, with Babe Ruth hitting three home runs in the final game. In August...
Bang & Whimper. The last hours of debate made the bill sound like a calamity. Shuddered Virginia's Democratic Harry Byrd: "I have never known such a determined effort to enact punitive legislation, most of which was unconstitutional and offensive to the South...
...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...