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People who still think of W. Lee O'Daniel as "Pass the Biscuits, Pappy" are way behind the times. Direct, unpredictable, religious, forever outsmarting the politicos by his simplicity, the Governor of Texas has become the State's most popular officeholder. He is passionately Texan as only a true-born Midwesterner can be (Ohio was his birthplace). When his hillbilly band sings Beautiful Texas, the song he wrote himself, crowds hear a note of unsophisticated faith that nobody else gives them...
Texas newspapers, businessmen and the legislature have fought the Governor from the start. But the typical Texan attitude is that 1) the 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...
...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...
...past eleven years Earl Browder had been general secretary (titular head) of the Communist Party in the U. S. Picked by the Party hierarchy to fill his uncomfortable shoes was another native-born U. S. citizen, an old-fashioned radical, 56-year-old Robert Minor. A Texan, a carpenter in his early days, Communist Minor has had a long career of Bolshevik activity. As a young man he took up cartooning and landed a job on the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. In 1916 he became publicity director for the defense of Tom Mooney. When the U. S. entered World...
Currently many a Texan sings of national defense. On a single Southwest juke box may be found I'm Lending You to Uncle Sam (sung by Bonnie Blue Eyes), Oh! They're Makin' Me All Over in the Army (Dick Robertson). Tall, slow-talking Red River Dave (Dave McEnery), who has written 200 songs, lately got off I'd Rather Fight for My Country Than Fight With a Wife...