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...Treasury; the Millikin amendment would cut Government revenue only $960 million. Much to the distress of the Republicans, the Democrats (joined by Maverick Republican Bill Langer) voted down Millikin's amendment 49-46. Then, much to their own surprise, the Republicans, joined by Virginia's Harry Byrd and Willis Robertson, Colorado's Edwin Johnson and Florida's Spessard Holland, defeated the George amendment...
...windfall profits were made, and apartment rents, based on watered-up values, were higher than they should have been. The scandals harked back to the Democratic Administration, since they were made possible by the National Housing Act's Section 608, repealed four years ago. When Democratic Senator Harry Byrd began investigating the deals, the Republicans brought them out in the open by firing Federal Housing Commissioner Guy T. O. Hollyday (TIME, April 26). Section 608 provided that the Government would insure mortgages up to 90% of the building cost, and many a builder was able to "mortgage...
When H. L. Mencken was slaying dragons with his weekly column in the Baltimore Sun, he seldom spoke well of politicians. But this spring H. C. ("Curley") Byrd, football coach and later president of the University of Maryland, who is running for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination, is using a campaign card with a Mencken quote. The card quotes Mencken as having written of Byrd and his performance at the university that "the thing to do with a man of such talents is not to cuss him for doing his job so well; it is much wiser . . . to give...
...This amazing statement suggests that McCarthy is as firmly fixed in his Senate seat as Virginia's Byrd or Georgia's Russell. Such is far from the case. In the 1952 elections McCarthy ran at the very bottom of the Republican ticket in Wisconsin, getting less than 55% of the major party vote, as against 61% for Eisenhower, 62.5% for Governor Kohler, 66% for Secretary of State Zimmerman and a 61.6% average for the ten Republican candidates for Congress...
...Mother's Day, Ike and Mamie made a pilgrimage to Virginia, where the President's mother was born and lived until she was a young woman. In a light drizzle, the presidential plane Columbine set down at Richmond's Byrd Airport. Governor Thomas Stanley and a score of Virginia dignitaries were on hand to meet the Eisenhowers and to escort them to St. Paul's Episcopal Church, where the Richmond Light Infantry Blues were lined up in full dress uniform with plumed shakos. The Blues, an ancient and aristocratic National Guard outfit, were celebrating their 165th...