Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gentleman largely responsible for Virginia's new roads is another exemplar of the way politics can keep its breeding, and again Lady Astor's remark was a neat compliment. The road-builder was her host and distant relative, Governor Harry Flood Byrd of Virginia...
...reason the Astor-Smith relation seemed so strange was, of course, that Politics and Society have long been divorced in the U. S. It is not yet so in England, nor in Virginia. Although she says "Amer-r-rican" like a dowager duchess, Lady Astor was every bit as politic as a national committeewoman or an assistant attorney-general. She drove about her native state admiring the improvements and nodding to all the people her friends hoped would be Democratic voters. She was politic with a very fat traveling salesman who rescued her with his flivver when her car broke...
There are poles and polls. To Harry Flood Byrd, a first son, fell the almost feudal duty and honor of taking over Richard Evelyn Byrd Sr.'s position in Virginia politics. The father co-bossed the State with Representative Harry ("Hal") Flood, famed in Wilsonian days as chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs. The roads which Lady Astor so admired are but one of many testimonials to the business-likeness with which Governor Byrd has handled his heritage...
...This became a surplus of $2,596.181. Governor Elbert Lee Trinkle (1922-26) had opened the way for a gasoline tax, and for reorganization of the governmental machinery. So vigorously has Governor Byrd carried on these beginnings that a contemplated bond issue has been avoided and Virginia has been said to have a "Mussolini." In supporting the Smith candidacy against the assault of Bishop James Cannon Jr. and Virginia's dry bourgeoisie, he has demanded a vote of confidence in the Byrd record...
...Governor may succeed himself in Virginia. The Byrd regime ends in 1930. The Byrd influence will not end, however. In managing his State machine, Governor Byrd has the aid of his other younger brother, third of the famed "Tom, Dick and Harry" trio, Thomas Boiling Byrd, who is also in politics. He also has the aid, now, of elements which were unfavorable to him when he ran for office, viz. Senator Carter Glass and Publisher John Stewart Bryan of the Richmond Times-Dispatch. Above all he has the aid of that cohesive spirit of aristocracy-in-democracy, which, despite...