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Texas. To nobody's surprise, Governor Allan Shivers came out flatly for Ike. Said he: "This year of decision is a time to place principle above party and the interests of our state and nation above tradition and habit ... I fear that Stevensonism will be Trumanism with a Harvard accent...
Meanwhile, the faculty began organizing a "Volunteers for Stevenson" group. By Wednesday, a committee of more than 100 faculty members, led by history professor Allan Nevins, had been organized. The scholars are considering running a full-page advertisement in the New York Times announcing their endorsement of the Illinois Governor and attacking that paper for its editorial stand...
Cadillacs & a Ford. The Shivers family (four children: John Shary, 12; Allan Jr., 6; Marialice Sue, 4; and Brian McGee, 6 weeks) lives most of the time at the governor's mansion in Austin, built in 1853 and now partially air-conditioned. They spend some of their time at Sharyland, the hotel-like headquarters of the Shary enterprises at Mission, and some at the Shivers farm near Woodville. Although Shivers owns two Cadillac limousines, he has been driving-in this election year-a red Ford sedan (with a Mercury engine and an air-conditioning system...
...military government major with the Third Army in Italy and France), he almost decided to quit politics and devote his full time to the Shary interests. But his colleagues persuaded him to run for lieutenant governor. On July 11, 1949, Governor Beauford Jester died and Allan Shivers became the 36th governor of Texas...
Some shrewd lawyers told Allan Shivers that under Texas law this would be an illegal use of the Democratic label. (The judgment of his legal advisers was confirmed when a district court last week threw out an attempt to get a "Texas Democratic" ticket on the ballot.) Shivers stayed up until 4 a.m. writing his speech to the year's second Democratic state convention, urging it to take the course it eventually took: put Stevenson and Sparkman on the ballot, but work against them...