Word: byrneses
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But Jimmy Byrnes had one great asset. Just as in future years military tactics and strategy will be judged on whether they are pre-or-post Hiroshima, so diplomatic dealings today are dated backward & forward from Yalta. That was the key conference of World War II. Jimmy Byrnes was not...
The Irishman. Another asset in Jimmy Byrnes's favor is his thorough knowledge of the workings of the U.S. Government. He is one of the few men in history who has held high office in all its three branches. Born to poverty, on the wrong end of Charleston'...
Byrnes is a thoroughgoing Irish extrovert. Common sense is his guide; compromise is his method. He has never made any money; his wants are few (he once described them as "two tailor-made suits a year, three meals a day, and a reasonable amount of good liquor"). He is without...
Topside Shake-Up. But for the accident of Franklin Roosevelt's death, Byrnes would now be a lawyer in Spartanburg, S.C. (pop. 32,249). He had been passed over for the Vice Presidency at Chicago; he had been passed over again for Secretary of State when Ed Stettinius got...
Ed Stettinius had redecorated the high-ceilinged walls and put two telephones in the Secretary's private bathroom. Jimmy Byrnes left the old, grey pile of masonry on Pennsylvania Avenue alone, but he changed the topside of the staff. It is now extraordinarily varied.