Word: beauford
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Died. Beauford Halbert Jester, 56, Texas' middle-of-the-road Democratic governor (since 1947); of coronary occlusion; in a Pullman berth while en route to Houston...
...shiny new Shamrock hotel was only one week old when Elson, Griffith and Johnson put up there for the night after lunching with Governor Beauford Jester in Austin. Owner McCarthy met them in the Shamrock's mirrored and muraled Cork Club the next day, where they talked while workmen wheeled slatted crates containing the unmounted heads of prize steers-McCarthy's latest trophies - through the upholstered premises. Ex-Wildcatter McCarthy, a lively man even by Texas standards seemed somewhat tired. He had been up most of the night fighting an oil well fire...
Last week, the house and senate unanimously passed a resolution against Addington and his kind. The resolution, which Governor Beauford Jester promised to sign, "authorized, instructed and empowered" the presidents of state colleges and universities to investigate and expel "all or any persons found to be disloyal to this nation." It was not exactly a law, explained House Speaker Durwood Manford, "but stronger than a suggestion." Cried Texas University Footballer "Peppy" Blount, a member of the house and one of the chief backers of the bill: "Academic freedom, huh? The only isms we want in Texas are Texasism and Americanism...
...banquet. Shamrocks bloomed everywhere-on ashtrays, wastebaskets, even on the panties and bras that McCarthy presented to his women guests. (The men got cowboy boots from the hides of prize cattle that provided the steaks.) The crowd whooped it up so hard that speeches by McCarthy, Texas' Governor Beauford Jester and Cinemactors Pat O'Brien and Leo Carrillo had to be put off until midnight. Rival Houston Hotelman Jesse Jones sat it all out quietly. Dorothy Lamour tried to sing in the Emerald Room, but carefree customers swore into the microphone ("Where the hell's my seat...
...from five years' imprisonment to death. Last week, four days before Harry Truman's civil rights program was talked to a standstill in the U.S. Senate (see above), the Texas House of Representatives passed the bill, virtually without debate, 125 to 1. The senate and Governor Beauford Jester were expected to make...