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...Governor Averell Harriman and ex-Senator Herbert Lehman). The council urged greatly expanded federal programs in social security, health, education, agriculture, public works and welfare, area redevelopment and urban renewal, did not attempt to put a price tag on the proposals. Virginia's economy-minded Senator Harry Flood Byrd-no member of the council-did. His estimate: $5 billion or $6 billion a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ECONOMY: The Council's Cure | 12/22/1958 | See Source »

...been pretty well extinguished. Symington holds Missouri, Kennedy can count on New England, and Gore, Kefauver to the contrary notwithstanding, controls Tennessee. Lyndon Johnson certainly doesn't have to worry about Texas, and probably not very much about the rest of the Southwest. But Richard Russell and Harry Byrd will have a large voice in the direction of the South's bloc of votes, and if Lyndon puts the finger on someone whom they don't like, they will not be desultory about saying...

Author: By Alfred FRIENDLY Jr., | Title: 'Who D'ya Like for '60?' | 12/2/1958 | See Source »

...Governor J. Lindsay Almond Jr. (TIME, Sept. 22) announced that if federal courts ruled against the statewide massive resistance system, which automatically closes schools before they can be integrated, he would name a commission "for the purpose of counsel and advice." Although Senator Harry Byrd, the creator of massive resistance and the commonwealth's political boss, publicly proclaimed that he would continue to fight on the old grounds, there was little doubt that the news on the editorial pages heralded a strategic retreat in Richmond toward token compliance with the U.S. Supreme Court's integration decrees. The import...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: News on the Editorial Pages | 11/24/1958 | See Source »

...DALLAS NEWS: TIME is short. The forces of conservatism in Washington are dwindling [to] men like Harry Byrd, [Barry] Goldwater. When they are gone, we all are gone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDGEMENTS & PROPHECIES: THE ELECTION: A POST-MORTEM | 11/17/1958 | See Source »

...served seven terms in Congress, is now a public-relations man for Capital Airlines, rates as one of the state's most effective speakers, has conservative Democratic backing. The Hoblitzell forces are despondent, and private polls agree that they should be. Republican Revercomb is hard pressed by Byrd...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: KEY SENATE RACES | 11/3/1958 | See Source »

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