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Byrnes, however, despised Smith and only endorsed him because he was opposed Johnston's strong support for Roosevelt's new push for vast labor reform, which showed in the recently enacted Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, and envisioned Smith would retire in 1944 and his friend Burnet R. Maybank-the mayor of Charleston who was running for Governor of South Carolina that year-would then go on to win Smith's Senate seat and build a powerful political machine with him that would control the South Carolina political scene.
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Byrnes strongly despised his fellow South Carolina Senator Cotton Ed Smith, who strongly opposed the New Deal.
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Subsequently, it was reported in books by authors Stephen O ' Byrnes and Raymond Smith, and by many political journalists in newspaper articles ( some of whom had Lenihan as their source ) that Lenihan had been one of the people who had made phone calls to Áras an Uachtaráin, the President's official residence, on the night in question, in order to persuade or pressurise Hillery to refuse a dissolution.
Taking advice from Byrnes, Maybank decided to instead run for governor, and Byrnes made the reluctant decision to support Smith.
Byrnes envisioned that Smith would retire in 1944 and that Maybank would successfully run for Smith's Senate seat and build a strong political machine in the state with him.
77 Sunset Strip is an hour-length American television private detective series created by Roy Huggins and starring Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., Roger Smith, and Edd Byrnes.
Some stars such as Connie Stevens, Edd Byrnes, Robert Conrad and Roger Smith made albums for Warner Bros. Records.
Smith won re-election in a close election in that year, thanks mainly to the unpopularity of Roosevelt interfering in the primary, Johnston's inability to please either the state's powerful textile mill owners or staunch white supremacists and a huge endorsement from Smith's fellow South Carolina Senator James Byrnes, a highly popular outspoken New Dealer who was renominated in 1936 after winning by a margin of over 87 %.
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* James Francis Byrnes ( 1882 – 1972 ), lawyer, congressman, senator, Supreme Court Justice ( only person to step down off the bench for another federal post — head the wartime Office of Economic Stabilization ), advisor to FDR, Secretary of State to Truman, Governor of South Carolina
By the 1930s, Byrnes took up the cause for a massive dam building project, the Santee Cooper, that would not only accomplish those tasks, but also electrify the entire state with hydroelectric power.
Although Byrnes's tough position against the Soviets paralleled the feelings of the President, personal relations between the two men grew strained, particularly when Truman felt that Byrnes was attempting to set foreign policy by himself, and only informing the President afterward.
The series also starred Jonathan Banks and Jim Byrnes, who were the only two regular cast members to appear in all four seasons.
Byrnes and Segers note regarding the abortion issue, " While more theologically conservative Protestant denominations, such as the Missouri-Synod Lutherans and the Southern Baptist Convention, expressed disapproval of Roe, they became politically active only in the mid and late 1970s.
Disagreements between them led Clayton to resign in January 1944, only to return to government service a month later as Surplus War Property Administrator under James F. Byrnes in the Office of War Mobilization.
Byrnes and endorsed
Byrnes endorsed Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1952 and 1956, Richard M. Nixon in 1960 and 1968 and Barry Goldwater in 1964.
In 1965, Byrnes spoke out against the " punishment " and " humiliation " of South Carolina U. S. Representative Albert W. Watson for having been stripped of his congressional seniority by the House Democratic Caucus after Watson endorsed Goldwater for president.
Byrnes openly endorsed Watson's election to Congress in a special election as the newest Republican member of the House.
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* United States Secretary of State James F. Byrnes Stuttgart speech, September 6, 1946 The speech was according to General Clay based on the letter Clay had sent Byrnes urging him to come to Stuttgart.
Then, three days before the run-off vote, twenty Catholics who said they had been altar boys with Byrnes published a professed endorsement of him.
Roosevelt refused to endorse anybody other than Wallace, but preferred Byrnes as the best alternative to Wallace and sought to push him as the party's nominee for president if the party's delegates refused to renominate Wallace at the 1944 Democratic National Convention.
However, Byrnes was regarded as too conservative for organized labor, the big city bosses opposed him as an ex-Catholic who would offend Catholics, and blacks were wary of his opposition to racial integration.
When Truman met Roosevelt's coffin in Washington, he asked Byrnes and former Vice President Wallace, the two other men who might well have succeeded Roosevelt, to join him at the train station.
While Truman quickly fell out with Wallace, he retained a good working relationship with Byrnes and increasingly turned to him for support.
Jack takes an instant dislike to Greg and openly criticizes him for his choice of career as a male nurse and whatever else he sees as a difference between Greg and the Byrnes family.
Despite efforts to impress the family, Greg's inadvertent actions make him an easy target for ridicule and anger: He accidentally breaks Pam's sister's nose during a volleyball mishap ; uses a malfunctioning toilet that floods the Byrnes ' back yard with sewage ; sets the wedding altar on fire and inadvertently leads Jack to think he is a marijuana user.
Jack rushes to the airport, convinces airport security to release Greg and brings him back to the Byrnes household.
Diamondbacks General Manager Josh Byrnes expressed an interest in keeping him with the organization, and Clark said he " would welcome the opportunity.
He calls Inspector Byrnes and asks him to come to the apartment, then tells Kit he will pretend to leave the building, secretly return, and hopefully catch the man who has been stalking her.
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The change in name of the FEAC to FEC was significant because as the U. S. Secretary of State James F. Byrnes reported after the Conference " As early as August 9 we invited the Soviet Union, Great Britain, and China to join with us in carrying out the objectives of the Potsdam Declaration and the Terms of Surrender for Japan.
" Byrnes was finally chosen because, according to Abramowitz, he had " a certain quality that was just more real, more earthly than the other two (...) he had his own trials to live through his life, being handicapped, and he was a wonderful actor, but more than an actor he's got presence on a screen.
" Abramowitz says, " I loved " Armageddon " because Jim Byrnes gave an incredible performance, which was heartbreaking.
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LF Eric Byrnes was on the 60-day disabled list from late June, with a torn left hamstring, and was out for the remainder of the season.
The move was seen by some fans as a belated attempt by the D ' Backs to counter the trade by their division rival, the Los Angeles Dodgers, for Boston Red Sox power-hitting OF Manny Ramirez on July 31 and also to compensate for the injuries to Hudson and Byrnes, generally considered two of the more " power-hitting " Diamondbacks on a team which has relied heavily on pitching and defense in recent years.
But the heart of the message was as Byrnes stated a month later " The nub of our program was to win the German people.
Josh Byrnes was promoted from senior vice president of baseball operations to replace Hoyer.
Edd Byrnes was not so lucky and bought himself out of his contract.
Truman was critical of Secretary of State Byrnes, both over being " left in the dark " about the Moscow conference, and that Iran had not been on the agenda.
As U. S. delegation member and future Secretary of State James F. Byrnes commented, " t was not a question of what we West would let the Russians do, but what we could get the Russians to do.
* One of the gang's actual suits ( probably Joe Byrnes ') was supposedly used in the film.
Hudson has been the subject of three plays: Hollywood Valhalla by Aidan Harney, starring Patrick Byrnes as Rock and Stewart Roche as his personal trainer, Toby, which was staged at Bewley's Cafe Theatre, Dublin, Ireland, in 2011 ; " For Roy ", by Nambi E. Kelley, starring Richard Henzel as Roy and Hannah Gomez as Caregiver, which was staged at American Theatre Company in Chicago in 2010 and Rock, by Tim Fountain, starring Michael Xavier as Rock and Bette Bourne as his agent Henry Willson, which was staged at London's Oval House Theatre in 2008.
The change was heralded by Restatement of Policy on Germany, a famous speech by James F. Byrnes, then United States Secretary of State, held in Stuttgart on September 6, 1946.
Byrnes had some questionable history: he agreed at Potsdam in July 1945 to " temporarily assign " an area of southern Silesia to " Polish Administration " which was more than the Poles and Soviets had expected to be agreed to.
The first and main turning point was the speech " Restatement of Policy on Germany " held in Stuttgart by the United States Secretary of State James F. Byrnes on September 6, 1946.
James Francis Byrnes ( May 2, 1882 – April 9, 1972 ) was an American politician from the state of South Carolina.
Byrnes was born at 538 King St. in Charleston, South Carolina and reared in Charleston, South Carolina.
Byrnes ' father died shortly after Byrnes was born.
His mother, Elizabeth McSweeney Byrnes, was an Irish-American dressmaker.
Byrnes was a protégé of " Pitchfork " Ben Tillman, and often had a moderating influence on the fiery segregationist Senator.
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