Word: beauford
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Dates: during 1946-1946
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...Received some 2,000 guests in the gold and damask halls of the National Palace. ¶Got a ten-gallon Stetson and a cowboy shirt from a Texas delegation headed by Governor-elect Beauford Jester. ¶Received calls from leftist ex-President Cárdenas, rightist ex-President Abelardo Rodriguez and middle-of-the-road ex-President Camacho. ¶Made a big hit with newsmen by holding Mexico's first give& amp; -take presidential press conference, broke another Mexican precedent by starting it at the scheduled time. But he neatly parried all attempts to define his new regime...
...last week, to no one's surprise, friendly, middle-of-the-roader Beauford Jester smacked out a home run to win the ball game with a two-to-one majority. His chief campaign promises: increased old-age pensions without increased taxes, a hearty welcome for all shades of warring Texas Democrats. To Rainey's last-minute charges of Ku Klux Klan backing, he quipped: "He has lost his fast ball, he has lost his curve ball. All he's got left is a mud ball...
...Texan's Texan, softspoken, greying (53) Beauford Jester had all the attributes of a winning candidate: Texas-born, son of a former Texas lieutenant governor, graduate of Texas University and its law school, infantry captain in World War I, father of three children (one a pretty Texas coed...
Apparently resigned by poll time last week, Texas picked cool, careful State Railroad Commissioner Beauford Jester, 53, the top middle-of-the-road candidate, as its No 1 Democratic gubernatorial contender. Lawyer Jester had run a "friendship" campaign, refrained from shouting and stomping. The lesser evil for oil-and-cattle-rich voters, he had breezed through without one appearance with a hillbilly band...