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Scapegoat at Hand. In his hour of heretical glory three years ago, Texas Governor Allan Shivers stood tall in the political saddle. Politically, the big state of Texas lay in his pocket. But despite the wave of Eisenhowerism, Texas remained solidly Democratic. No one understood this better than rebel Shivers, as he watched his power dissolve behind him during the post-election years. Under Sam Rayburn, Speaker of the House (and single head of the Texas faithful, now that illness has removed Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson from the arena), the Democratic loyalists gathered in new vigor to nibble...
...easy. A ripe array of administrative scandals have erupted, e.g., the Houston grain scandal and the veterans' land mess (see-below). Although none of these implicated the governor personally, they were laid at his door. And at the start of his seventh year as governor, lanky Allan Shivers finds himself in the awkward role of the man who came to dinner. As one Dallas Democrat put it: "He's stayed too damn long...
...Veterans Land Board, composed of Giles, Governor Allan Shivers and Attorney General John Ben Shepperd, eased the way by hastening its approval of the hot transactions, often acted so expeditiously that the promoters were able to pick up the options with the state's money. The fact that Shivers and Shepperd rarely attended board meetings undoubtedly helped Giles work out his plan. Usually the ex-servicemen had no idea what they were signing. Many thought the papers were some sort of application for a cash bonus...
BUSINESS BOOM will keep growing in 1955's second half, predicts Allan Sproul, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Said he: "The business recovery has been sparked by housing and steel, but it has now broadened out so that if there is a leveling off in housing and autos, business should continue to improve in the 1955 second half...
...Klux Klan and race-baiting Bryant Bowles, and earned herself a clutch of journalism awards and scores of enemies. Although the K.K.K. burned a cross on her lawn and poisoned her dog, Editor Reese was not intimidated. She continued to play stories on the five children of Orange Picker Allan Platt (TIME, Dec. 13, 1954) who were ousted from a white school in Mount Dora on the ground that they were Negroes, although they claimed to be of Irish-Indian descent.* Last week Editor Reese was facing a new kind of challenge. An opposition weekly, the Mount Dora Herald...