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Senator Byrnes is one of President Roosevelt's closest friends and is considered the White House contact man in the Senate. Several of the more important pieces of New Deal legislation have been put through the Senate under his personal supervision.
Senator James F. Byrnes, James Roosevelt, and Arthur N. Holcombe '08, professor of Government, are scheduled to speak tonight to a Democratic rally in the New Lecture Hall at 8 o'clock.
Only occasion on which it [TIME] doesn't call a spade a spade is when it lets readers see from photographs and calling would be superfluous-as it reveals those spade-faced, hedge-headed, hookwormed whites of South Carolina to whom the likes o' Jimmy Byrnes has to...
Even more convincing was dapper little Senator James Francis Byrnes's victory in South Carolina over fiery Thomas Porcher Stoney, onetime Mayor of Charleston, and gaunt Colonel William C. Harllee, retired Marine (TIME, Aug. 24). Jimmy Byrnes squeaked into the Senate in 1930 with 120,000 primary votes to...
Almost the only man who refused to concede that Jimmy Byrnes's great victory, like Pat Harrison's, was a thumping endorsement for the New Deal was South Carolina's senior Senator Ellison D. Smith, no New Dealer. Sulked he: "There are so many elements involved that...