Word: mavericks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Democrat named Albert D. Cash. Cincinnati had not had a Democratic mayor for 35 years, but Bob Taft's powerful Republican machine had slipped a cog in November. Of nine council seats, it had won only four. The rest had been won by a coalition of Democrats and maverick Republicans, flying the banner of Cincinnati's famed reform organization, the Charter Committee. Charlie Taft had led the Charterites...
...maverick-minded Republican did come up with another idea. Vermont's Senator Ralph Flanders recommended rationing of meat. "The price of meat is the keystone of the whole process of spiraling," he said. He thought rationing would help keep down the price without direct price control by keeping "demand in line." He was not optimistic. But he put it forward anyhow-"to see if anybody has got a better idea...
...Frank Dobie is a maverick and a Texan. He can quote Wordsworth or Shelley at length-but he is also a he-man who once ran a 250,000-acre ranch. At the University of Texas, where he has taught for 28 years, Dobie likes to be called Professor Pancho. His lecture preambles-"Now, I'll tell you a little story of Liver-Eating Johnson . . ."-have delighted thousands of students. He refused to move into the new skyscraperish university tower. "It looks like a toothpick in a pie," he said, and opened an office in the oldest building...
Professor Pancho had other irregularities that Texas University's Board of Regents liked less. As friend and supporter of ex-President Homer Price Rainey, another maverick, he long ago earned the regents' enmity. Rainey refused to be bossed by the regents, would not remove John Dos Passos' U.S.A. from the library shelves, would not dismiss teachers whom the regents considered leftist. When Rainey was fired, three years ago, Frank Dobie told a Kiwanis meeting that "no self-respecting, able member of the present faculty would serve as president. But the regents will have no trouble finding...
...Maverick in a Trap. Last week, 250 students organized a torchlight parade, marched to Professor Pancho's house to say goodbye. The university's respected Historian Walter Prescott Webb called upon Painter to rehire Dobie. "The truth of the matter," said he, "is that Mr. Dobie has walked with stubborn unconcern into a trap...