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...thick flour gravy," and sometimes topped by a couple of fried eggs. The Texans seemed to her as bad as their food, loud braggarts who had stolen Texas from the Mexicans and now treated them like peons. The men were big and boorish, the women loud, overdressed nitwits. When Jett Rink, the fabulous oil millionaire, gave a party, Leslie saw "Stetsons worn with black dinner coats . . . women in Mainbocher evening gowns escorted by men in shirt sleeves and boots." In the huge Reata house the library was bookless, the music room "mute...
...Appointed Wayne Coy, Washington radioman and onetime assistant to Franklin Roosevelt, to be chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, succeeding Charles R. Denny, resigned; and upped George E. Sterling, FCC's chief engineer, to be a commissioner, succeeding Ewell K. Jett, resigned...
...which will have to decide the matter, was also heard from. Said Commissioner E. K. Jett: "In my opinion there will be two systems of television in the future: 1) a system patterned along the lines of the presently recognized commercial system; 2) a vastly improved system of television based on new development...
...astonishment at Lincoln amounted to awe. On the day his diary opens, Lincoln "quietly grinned" when he was told of a plot to murder him. When told of the generals' ambition to set up a military dictatorship, Lincoln was reminded of Jim Jett's brother: "Jim used to say that his brother was the damndest scoundrel that ever lived, but in the infinite mercy of Providence he was also the damndest fool...
Adviser William Jett Lauck, has been something less than successful. Unable for eight months to agree on recommendations, it finally issued a series of reports, most of which failed to make headlines though they did establish pretty thoroughly the basic troubles besetting hard coal. Among them...