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Virginia's Harry Byrd drew an admission that U.S. authorities had long ago recognized the dangers of a North Korean invasion, but withdrew U.S. troops anyway. Acheson argued that all U.S. authorities, including the J.C.S. and MacArthur had approved the decision, and that it was taken because of a recommendation by the United Nations (which, he neglected to say, the U.S. initiated). Snapped Byrd: ". . . That doesn't make it an accurate or proper recommendation...
...Edward Honeycutt, a young Negro, was strapped in Louisiana's portable electric chair last week, a young couple named Mr. & Mrs. George Byrd sat among the spectators by special arrangement with St. Landry Parish Sheriff Clayton Guilbeau. The death chair had been set up in a jury room at the parish courthouse in Opelousas, and the Byrds were there because Honeycutt had been convicted of raping Mrs. Byrd in the presence of two of her children...
Died. Lincoln Ellsworth, 71, polar explorer who used his share of a large family fortune io help finance many of his expeditions; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. In 1926, only two days after Explorer Richard E. Byrd and Aviator Floyd Bennett flew over the North Pole, Ellsworth, in the airship Norge, repeated the feat with veteran Explorer Roald Amundsen. In the 1930s he made two trips to Antarctica, claimed 381,000 square miles...
Truman to get congressional approval before sending any more than the first four divisions to Europe. Behind the move was the fine hand of Virginia's Harry Byrd, as bitter a foe of Harry Truman as any Republican, and as jealous, too, of the prerogatives of Congress. The Republicans swung in happily behind. "Too long have we permitted the executive branch to sound the tuning fork," declared Republican Robert C. Hendrickson of New Jersey...
...Daniels attributed to the President some recommendations for reforming Congress. Most notable: limiting tenure to twelve years. Daniels pointed out that such a limitation would lop off such Democratic pillars as Speaker Sam Rayburn, House Majority Leader John McCormack, Texas' Senator Tom Connally and Virginia's Harry Byrd...