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...died and a chapter ended last week in U.S. political history. When Roosevelt II marched into power in 1933, marching with him came Tammany politicians, social planners, men of labor, liberals and the conservatives of the old South. Byron Patton Harrison was symbolic of that last, anomalous group...
Died. Senator Byron Patton ("Pat") Harrison, 59, Congressman for 30 years; in Washington...
...days after Maryland's Representative William Devereux Byron died in a plane crash last March, Mrs. Byron gave Maryland party bosses a hearty laugh by announcing her candidacy "to carry on Bill's work." But Katharine Byron lined up Democratic delegates, ran away with the convention, went to work on her Republican opponent, A. Charles Stewart. Her campaign was simple and personal. She would stop people on the street and say: "I'm Katharine Byron, and I'd appreciate your vote." When the ballots were in, she had a slim 1,200-vote margin...
Dark-haired, dark-eyed, vivacious Representative Byron has borne five sturdy sons, but at 37 is the youngest and by far the prettiest Congresswoman. She is also rich, ambitious, and a friend of Eleanor Roosevelt. First to congratulate her after she was sworn in last week was her colleague from Maryland, Senator Millard E. Tydings. Senator Tydings closed his eyes, saluted Representative Byron with a hearty buss, then repeated four times for photographers...
Burton was a cross between Byron and Major Hoople-a proud, fierce, foolish, gifted man with one streak of true genius -a genius for failure. Isabel, like her husband, was a rebel, but of a far more conventional sort. Her rebelliousness began like the romantic dreams of any English Backfisch; it was her great distinction that she stuck by them. And her dreams, after a fashion, stuck...