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...Senate that are at stake in the 1958 election, less than half are held by men who fit Eisenhower's definition of Modern Republicanism. Ike would have no more misgivings about backing Barry Goldwater than a Democratic President would have in endorsing Virginia's Harry Byrd. But Ike's struggle will come in swallowing some others in the 21, e.g., the party's three Senate Neanderthals, Molly, Jenner and Joe: i.e., Nevada's George W. Malone, Indiana's William Ezra Jenner and Wisconsin's Joe McCarthy. Both Malone and Jenner (who already...
Last week a surprise nominee walked off with the honors. Virginia's budget-dogging Harry Flood Byrd quietly announced that his Senate Finance Committee would begin hearings on "the financial condition of the U.S." by mid-May, would carry out "one of the broadest investigations ever undertaken by Congress." Because the committee already has funds to begin, Byrd asked for no approval, needed none. But he could certainly have got it had he tried. To the Senate, which reveres Harry Byrd as a man who knows fiscal policy as well as he knows Virginia apples, his credentials were eminently...
WASHINGTON, April 21--Sen. Byrd (D-Va.) said today that unless President Eisenhower cuts government spending sharply, an unbalanced budget may rule out any 1957 tax cuts...
...Byrd, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, said in an interview that if the rate of spending Eisenhower has proposed for the year beginning July 1 isn't lowered "it is probable the budget won't be balanced...
FAST TAX WRITE-OFFS are expected to be stopped soon. Congress and Treasury Secretary Humphrey are lining up behind Senator Byrd's bill to end write-offs except for plants to produce new weapons for which present facilities are unsuitable. Byrd claims Treasury loses billions...