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...unprecedented cut -that -budget clamor heard lately on Capitol Hill and across the nation is sweet music to Virginia's Harry Flood Byrd, the No. 1 applegrower in the U.S. and the Mr. Economy of the U.S. Senate. For a decade Democrat Byrd has faithfully worked out each year a picked-clean "Byrd budget," always a lot smaller than the one submitted by the President, whether Democrat or Republican. Last week bouncy, apple-cheeked Harry Byrd, 69, unwrapped his fiscal 1958 budget, proposed to pluck a total of $6.5 billion from the $71.8 billion proposed by President Eisenhower...
Star Witness. To support his claim that the fiscal 1958 budget is much too big, Byrd happily cited a top member of President Eisenhower's own team: Treasury Secretary George Magoffin Humphrey, who set the budget furor stirring last January with his now famous prediction that high taxes, continued for years on end, would bring on "a depression that will curl your hair...
Died. Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd, 68, flyer and explorer; of rheumatic heart disease; in Boston (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
...Admiral Byrd Dies...
BOSTON, March 11--Retired Rear Adm. Richard E. Byrd, USN, 68, the first man to fly over the North and South Poles, died peacefully in his sleep tonight at his Brimmer St. home...