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...high voice belonged to Governor J. Strom Thurmond; the gruffer one came from Olin D. Johnston. Both men wanted Johnston's U.S. Senate seat...
...been Governor Thurmond," said the deep voice, "I would never have appointed the Nigger physician of Charleston, Dr. T. C. McFall, to displace your beloved white physician [on the Medical Advisory Board]." At that point, sounds of dissent rose from 400 Negroes in the bleachers. Johnston bellowed: "Make those Niggers keep quiet...
With these words, Johnston effectively established the fact that, though not a Dixiecrat like Thurmond, he was just as anti-Negro. Johnston also made it clear that he hated Harry Truman just as much, only he was playing it smarter: by being a Democrat he could sabotage the President better from the inside...
With the largest primary vote ever given a candidate for Oklahoma's governorship, Johnston Murray, son of tobacco-chewing, brimstone-spitting old ex-Governor "Alfalfa Bill" Murray, topped a field of four other Democrats by a plurality of nearly 90,000, but he also faced a runoff. A night-school lawyer who has never before run for public office, 47-year-old Murray has been a printer, reporter, salesman, cattle dealer, cotton-gin operator, farmer, interpreter, tool dresser, truck dispatcher, oilfield roustabout, and plant manager. His campaign slogan: "Just Plain Folks...
...Famed calligraphers all. Ludovici Arrighi of Rome published the first manual for nonprofessionals in 1522. Edward Johnston, who died in 1944, was known as the "father of modern English calligraphy." Today's best-known English calligrapher: 55-year-old Alfred J. Fairbank...