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...recently put it into storage and purchased a 1928 Rolls-Royce. Since buying the English car a month ago, Osgood has had it in Byrd's Garage in Cambridge. As his roommate explains the situation, "It's not that there's anything wrong with it. It's just that Mr. Byrd likes Rolls-Royces and we can't get the damn thing away from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Jalopies' or 'Antiques,' Some Student Cars Go On Forever | 12/17/1949 | See Source »

Among the composers represented will be Inchois, Dufay, Byrd, Campian, Monteverdi, Tomkins, Machaut, di Lasso, and Josquin des Pres...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Pro Musica Antiqua' Group Gives Concert | 11/26/1949 | See Source »

...best be guaranteed by letting the states do their own housecleaning. Virginia's proposal to repeal the poll tax was defeated by a majority of nearly four to one. But many organizations which wanted to abolish the tax-including church, labor, Negro and veterans' groups-fought the Byrd machine's proposal as complicated and dishonest. They feared that the blank-check authority it granted the Byrd-controlled legislature to set up new voting requirements might prove more harmful to their cause than the present $1.so-a-year poll tax. ¶In Texas, a straight anti-poll...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Be It Resolved . . . | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

...with prospects strong for going deeper into the hole. Guesses on the budget deficit by the end of fiscal 1950 next June 30 ranged from $3,000,000,000 by an administration expert to $7,000,000,000 by Senator Harry Byrd (D.Va...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Steel to Strike; Some Miners Return | 10/1/1949 | See Source »

Virginia's Harry Byrd, who had led the futile economy fight, calculated that "Since the war ... we have reduced the debt 3% . . . Now we propose to start another chain of annual debt increases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: The Buck That Wasn't Passed | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

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