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When Harry ("Curly") Byrd ran for Governor of Maryland last fall,* his Republican opponents raised quite an unpleasant fuss about one aspect of his career: his 18 years as president of the University of Maryland. As most Maryland voters knew, the Middle States Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools had recently completed a thorough examination of the university, and rumor had it that its confidential report was far from favorable. Last week, after keeping it under wraps for months, the university finally let the secret out. The association's haymaker: unless Byrd's successor, Wilson Elkins, straightens...
...Lack of Ferment." The association's investigators gave Curly Byrd at least one bit of unrestrained praise. In his 18 years he had seen his enrollments jump from 3,376 to 25,000, his budget grow from $2,600,000 to $22 million, such a unit as the College of Military Science become first-rate. But in building up the campus, he had apparently neglected a few essentials. His control had been so tight that the university had become "unquestionably the lengthened shadow of President Byrd." As a result, said the association, there was a tendency on the part...
...Roosevelt's veto of the tax bill. He resigned as majority leader before he sat down. Knowland is unlikely to follow or even understand this example." The afternoon the veto reached the Senate, my brother, the late Senator Bennett Champ Clark, and his deskmate and close friend, Senator Byrd, called upon Senator Barkley . . . When Senator Barkley arose in the Senate to make the speech that ended with his resignation, he had already been assured by Senators Byrd and Clark that they had pledges sufficient to re-elect him. Accordingly, he was re-elected by the Democratic caucus next morning...
...program will include music by Byrd, Purcell, Bach, Rameau, and Arne...
Gene Woodling, veteran outfielder went to the Orioles with right-handed pitchers Harry Byrd and Jim McDonald, shortstop Willie Miranda and two rookie catchers...