Word: byrneses
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To Congress, already protesting waste in defense spending, both moves seemed to open wide new doors of extravagance and favoritism. At the very least, they meant a subsidy to some holders of defense contracts. Southerners complained that Wilson's "distressed industry" plan might wipe out the booming South'...
Later, Stevenson served as an assistant to two Secretaries of State, Edward Stettinius and James Byrnes. He went to the San Francisco United Nations Conference and worked with the U.S. delegation to the U.N. General Assembly. His Washington experience provided him with a story which always gets a chuckle at...
Four years later, Illinois organization Democrats began to worry again. Their new fear: that Stevenson might not be their candidate. The governor, whose deepest interest has long been foreign affairs (he served with the U.S. delegation to the United Nations General Assembly and as a special assistant to the Secretary...
At 45, Alumnus Donald Russell is a respected Carolinian, a onetime soda jerker and salesman who won first honors at both the college and the law school, rose to be one of the top lawyers in the state. In 1930 he joined the firm of Nicholls, Wyche and Byrnes, eventually...
Last week Governor Byrnes was quick to say that officially he had nothing to do with the appointment of his old friend ("I did not attend the board meeting at which Mr. Russell was elected"). But unofficially, he had to admit that he was pleased. In both size (3,810...