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Last week Morris Sheppard died from overwork, eight years short of his goal. His consuming ambition was to serve in Congress longer than anyone else...
When Morris Sheppard was a schoolboy in Wheatville, Tex., he studied physiology. One illustration in the class textbook was a study of a drunkard's stomach, done in passionate colors. He never got over it, and last week he died a teetotaler...
...introduced the law that became the 18th Amendment, helped the tall, droop-mustached Minnesota zealot, Andrew J. Volstead, write the Prohibition enforcement law. But as saloons became speakeasies and gangsters turned to bootleggers, Volstead got all the knocks. Almost nobody had it in for genial, kindly Morris Sheppard. He was no fanatic, and everyone knew it. He simply thought liquor was poison. Texas went right on drinking and re-electing Morris Sheppard...
...Sheppard didn't try to be a great statesman, but he knew a lot about the fine art of being a little Senator. He kept a little black book of his daily attendance record in Congress. The average was less than a day's absence per year, for 38 years. Any Texan could ask him to do anything and be sure he would try. He was a "typewriter Senator," answering every scrap of mail faithfully, always regarding himself as the errand boy of a great State...
...program and production boards of the Network. The competition will consist mainly of announcing and program preparation, including the writing of scripts, and is open only to Freshmen and Sophomores. All potential David Sarnoffs in these two classes are invited to turn up at the Network's Sheppard Hall studios on Holyoke Street this Thursday evening at 7:30 o'clock, when details of the competition will be explained. No previous experience is necessary...