Search Details

Word: byrneses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

War Mobilizer James F. Byrnes called the two battlers to his White House office -not to fire them but to urge them to try to patch up their quarrel. Congressional committees carefully shied away from an investigation. No Congressman wanted to embarrass Jesse Jones further, and there seemed little honest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Battle of Titans | 7/12/1943 | See Source »

Last week, a full day before the next message went up, Jimmy Byrnes phoned rangy John McCormack, Majority Leader, told him to get set for a veto of the Commodity Credit Corp. bill, which prohibited the use of subsidies to roll back food prices. Immediately the House strategists conferred, under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Veto Upheld | 7/12/1943 | See Source »

Gallup pollsters last week asked Southern voters to name one choice for the next Democratic Presidential candidate. The South's choice: Roosevelt, 80%; Byrnes, 8; Wallace, 6; Farley, 3; McNutt, 2; Douglas, 1; Winant, less than 1.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: The Sullen South | 7/12/1943 | See Source »

Into this situation came the third U.S. Food Administrator in four months - Judge Marvin Jones, smooth, bland, quiet ex-Congressman from Texas, who left the bench six months ago to aid Czar of Czars Jimmy Byrnes. He took time out to preside over the international food conference at Hot Springs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOOD: Across the Land | 7/5/1943 | See Source »

In his bedroom at the Shoreham Hotel where he has moved to be close to Jimmy Byrnes, he picks up a set of dumbbells every morning and goes through a vigorous bout of shadow boxing, shuffling over the carpet, tossing left hooks and right crosses.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: U.S. At War, Jun. 28, 1943 | 6/28/1943 | See Source »

Previous | 244 | 245 | 246 | 247 | 248 | 249 | 250 | 251 | 252 | 253 | 254 | 255 | 256 | 257 | 258 | 259 | 260 | 261 | 262 | 263 | 264 | Next