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...Senate steering committee had stalled about filling the job left vacant by the death of Morris Sheppard of Texas for several weeks, casting a longing eye toward Military Affairs' next to senior member, Elbert Duncan Thomas of Utah, who Is an all-out-aid-to-Britain man and an industrious student of military needs. But the rule of seniority is dear to the Senate: historians could count only two contemporary occasions when it has been upset. Now the Senators could not bring themselves to break the rule again...
...June 28 Texas holds a primary to pick a Senator in place of the late Morris Sheppard, and last week Franklin Roosevelt set out to capture the State for the New Deal. The irony of the situation was that the nation's No. 1 Democrat, who has Texas in his pocket on foreign affairs, has had to rely on Texas politicians rather than on bright young New Dealers to support his domestic policies. And Texas gave him Garner and Dies, thorns in his side. But a greater irony was that political wiseacres did not think the nation...
...Governor is a well-meaning man who does not understand government, and 2) that is a good thing. Since he has been deadlocked with the legislature for two and a half years, with neither able to do much, Texans say the State has forged steadily ahead. When Senator Sheppard died last month, legislators thought they saw a golden opportunity to get rid of the Governor. They unanimously urged him to resign, have his Lieutenant Governor appoint him Senator, and hie himself to Washington...
...serve as Senator Morris Sheppard's successor until a new Senator can be elected, Texas' Governor Wilbert Lee ("Pass the Biscuits, Pappy") O'Daniel appointed crusty, crotchety Andrew Jackson Houston, 87, only living son of Texas' founder-hero, Sam Houston...
...Morris Sheppard's death stampeded Texas' political cattle. As Senator Sheppard's casket went quietly down Texarkana's State Line Avenue to the little cemetery last week, Red-Hunter Martin Dies, Attorney General Gerald C. Mann, a horde of shorthorns were hot after the seat. Texas' House of Representatives petitioned Governor W. Lee ("Pass-The-Biscuits-Pappy") O'Daniel to appoint himself for the 90-day interim before an election must be held. Pappy held his peace, and pondered. Morris Sheppard was buried. The little people of Texas, the Anti-Saloon League of America...