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Instead of a posse. Little organized a "postcard shower" from Press readers to cheer up the jailed Texan, helped newspapers in Conley's home town of Amarillo raise a $5,500 fund for his legal defense. Last week, after 37 months in jail, Texan Conley was back home with eight-year-old daughter Lynette, aided in part by the decision of a Massachusetts judge to let Texas settle the custody question...
Death of a Texan. One Texas lieutenant was executed because the men in his platoon collapsed, but he showed his captors...
...time Scrivner finished reading the letter, the issue was decided. Debate went on for another day and a half, but every attempt to increase the bill was voted down. When Texan Mahon moved to give the Air Force another $1.1 billion, the vote was 161 (mostly Democrats) to add the $1.1 billion, 230 (mostly Republicans) against...
...that they had no money. Later, when Dutch approached Arnold again, the need was for fighters, not basic trainers. Said Kindelberger: "My dear general, these are not basic trainers. These are basic combat planes.'' He plugged the idea, eventually got an order for the T-6 Texan (to the British, the Harvard; to the U.S. Navy, the SNJ). Early in 1940, when the British asked North American to build Curtiss P-40s Kindelberger answered that he could design and produce a better airplane quicker. In 127 days, he turned out the P-51, the first of the famed...
Catching a Lady Bird. It was at this stage of his life that the brash young Texan caught Lady Bird (christened Claudia Alta Taylor), the bright, charming daughter of a millionaire Texas rancher. Johnson organized his campaign and surrounded her in typical fashion. The day they met in Austin he asked for and got a date for breakfast the next morning; he courted her for three days until he had to go back to Washington, then kept up a steady fire of letters and telephone calls. They were married ten weeks after they met, and Johnson hustled her back...