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Died. Francis Higbee Case, 65, wispy, upright Republican U.S. Senator from South Dakota since 1951 (after 14 years in the House), known for his 1946 House labor bill demanding tighter controls on union bargaining, which though vetoed by President Truman, was the precursor of the 1947 Taft-Hartley Act; of...
>J. Taylor Allen, former Southwest area director for the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service, said that Henry Marshall, chief of production adjustment in Texas, had been planning to torpedo Estes' cotton scheme, when he was found dead with five bullet holes from a bolt-action rifle. Originally ruled a...
After graduating from the College, Davidson and several friends, joined the Civilian Conservation Corps in an effort to balance out an education which they considered "too intellectual and urban." He developed "strong opinions" about improving the CCC and took them to President Roosevelt. At the age of 22, Davidson was...
> William P. Mattox was suspended as vice chairman of the Reeves County Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Committee-which helps set crop allotments in Estes' home county-while the agency investigated his connection with Billie Sol. Mattox has admitted flying to Washington with Estes on a trip paid for by...
> Wisconsin's Governor Gaylord Anton Nelson, 45, who survived a 1960 state sweep by Richard Nixon to become Wisconsin's first two-term Democratic Governor in this century, decided to announce for the Senate seat now held by venerable Republican Alexander Wiley, 77. Nelson has successfully pushed state...