Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Foreign Relations Committee in 1932 (when Franklin Roosevelt was President-elect), but he might never have been Secretary of the Navy if Harry Byrd had not wanted a seat in the Senate and if Carter Glass had not turned down a Cabinet post. To make a Senate place for Virginia's ambitious young Boss Byrd, President Roosevelt named Senator Swanson to a Cabinet position which had often been filled by a mediocrity...
...President's revolving, self-liquidating Great White Rabbit of 1939 ($3,860,000,000 loan program), nothing was heard last week except a resolution put through the Senate by anti-Roosevelt Senator Byrd of Virginia, asking the Treasury to itemize some $8,000,000,000 of extra-Budget financing already entered into by the Government. Senator Byrd's point: the 1939 rabbit is superfluous...
...cameras and perhaps for solace, Democrats Stark (Missouri), Cochran (Nebraska) and Lehman ganged up with the President. At the President's feet, beaming innocently, sat a G. O. P. Governor's daughter, Anne Vanderbilt of Rhode Island, and a Democrat's daughter, Julia Holt of West Virginia...
Last fortnight the Senate's hard-money men led by Virginia's Carter Glass killed the section of the bill renewing the President's power to revalue the dollar by getting Key Pittman's silver bloc to join them -the price being 77.57? an oz. for domestic silver. In Hyde Park, President Roosevelt hit the ceiling. He accused the hard-money men of returning control of the U. S. dollar to Wall Street's exchange speculators. Secretary Morgenthau announced that U. S. farmers and businessmen had "better start worrying seriously" if the Senate...
Amid parliamentary palaver on a proposed tobacco-tax increase, waspish Lady Nancy Astor, M. P., who abominates smoking & drinking, called smoking "almost a national crime." Said a fellow member: "Is this not rather strange talk coming from a daughter of Virginia?" Retorted Lady Astor: "I remember the Bishop of Virginia telling me 30 years ago he would sooner see his daughter drunk than smoking a cigarette...