Word: mavericks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hastings, Iowa. He wears a permanent red necktie, has some ability at hog-calling, writes for farm papers. In the Roosevelt avalanche of 1932 he slid into the House but was not conspicuously New Dealish (he voted against AAA and NRA) until lately, when he has run with Maury Maverick's "Young Turks...
Terrelita Fontaine Maverick, 12-year-old daughter of Representative Maury Maverick of Texas, fell from the first-floor fire escape of her father's Washington apartment, suffered a double fracture of the skull. Surgeons operated immediately, called her chances of recovery excellent...
Aloof from the geographical battle, Representative Maury Maverick threw into the House hopper a brand-new bill to establish in the State Department an Institute of Friendly American Relations with part of its job the operation of a Government station for broadcasting to the U. S. and other American republics. The Maverick Bill specifies neither location nor cost...
Elected to Congress, Cowboy-Congressman Rogers feels like a matted maverick in well-groomed Washington. But when he discovers that hoity-toity capital society functions as purposefully as a medicine show, he puts on a show of his own with motion pictures of his constituents' plight, gets Federal attention for his district's man-made "drouth...
...appropriations are under the Military Affairs Committee, whose new chairman, Kentuckian Andrew Jackson May, is a crusty opponent of the TVA power program and willing to rake all the muck possible. Best thing Majority Leader Sam Rayburn could do under the circumstances was to trust his fellow Texan Maury Maverick, who had introduced a resolution calling for a joint House and Senate investigation of all charges...