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...York Yankees and the Philadelphia Athletics swapped 11 players yesterday. Major figures in the trade were first baseman Eddie Robinson and pitcher Harry Byrd who went to the Yankees and the Athletics in turn received Negro first baseman Vic Power, outfielder Bill Renna, and first baseman Don Bollweg...
Standouts defensively for Adams were Bob Byrd, Picard, Milt MacDonald, Pete Stern, and Bill Zwilling...
...this year. They were wrong. Republican Candidate Theodore Roosevelt Dalton got almost 45% of the votes, more than any Republican candidate for governor in Virginia history (the 50-year average: 29%), but it was not enough. Furniture Manufacturer Thomas B. Stanley, backed by every unit of Harry Byrd's Democratic machine, was elected by a margin of more than 44,000 votes. In their own Virginia way, the Byrdmen pitched their campaign against Dalton on the argument that he was a big-spending, high-debt, New Deal type...
...Virginia, Democrat Thomas B. Stanley, backed by the powerful Byrd organization, defeated Republican Teed Dalton for governor in the closest race in years...
...main trouble with the Ruml plan is that it goes too far in estimating what Government investments are self-liquidating and could be handled outside the budget. A cash budget is also opposed by economy-minded lawmakers, e.g., Senator Harry Byrd, on the ground that the "fiscal illusion" of balance would open the door to greater Government spending. Actually. Congress would have the same control over spending that...