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Virginia's conservative Senator Harry Flood Byrd, 65, has controlled his state for 27 years-ever since he won the governorship back in 1925 and wrested control of the rural Democratic machine from Bishop James Cannon Jr., chairman of the Board of Temperance and Social Service of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Since World War II the Senator has had a lot of criticism and competition. In 1946, a Richmond lawyer named Martin A. Hutchinson ran up a startling 82,000 votes (against Byrd's 142,000) in the senatorial primary; in 1949, wellborn; Colonel Francis Pickens Miller...
...little relief from all these pressures was the arrival in Cambridge of Paul Whiteman, straight from a successful European tour. "American jazz," declared Whiteman, "has taken Europe by storm." Admiral Byrd, conqueror of the South Pole, told an enthusiastic audience that airplanes were the hope of the future...
Philadelphia (Byrd) 2, St. Louis...
Bairns for Byrd...
...remaining articles, however, are a little short on information, and they serve to remind the reader that, after all, U.S.A. is the N.A.M.'s publication. Perhaps the worst of the lot is Senator Byrd's un instructive and strangely familiar epic on federal expenditures. The Senator gives us a "Byrd's eye view of federal spendorama," and not content with turning this phrase, he explains how many dollars of OUR money the bureaucrats, politicians, and pinks are spending each second of the day. Beyond these gimmicks, Senator Byrd has very little in the way of analysis, discussion, or interpretation...