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...with a speaker's stand on top, he set out through the State-with no manager, no party machine, no platform, no headquarters except his home or his hotel room, no knowledge of any political rules except to entertain the crowds, to promise $30 per month to every Texan 65 or over, to kid "professional politicians...
...Safety Board, the President appointed two licensed transport pilots, dashing, mustached Texan Tom Oates Hardin, vice-president of the Airline Pilots' Association, veteran of 10,000 flying hours with American Airlines; and Alabama-born Lieut.-Colonel Sumpter Smith, War flier, aeronautical engineer, since 1936 director of the Division of Airways and Airports of the WPA. The third Safety Board member was not named. Among these appointments, peeled political eyes could discover no one recommended for appointment by dictator-fearing McCarran. But if Franklin Roosevelt gave the back of his hand to Rebel Pat McCarran, it was at the same...
Every year it is news in the South when the first bale of cotton is ginned. Last week, for the fifth time, Francisco P. Lozano, Rio Grande Valley farmer, made this news. But the event was the signal for little glee, for Texan Farmer Lozano and other U. S. cotton growers are expecting their second biggest crop in five years. Estimates have placed the total yield at 13,000,000 bales, compared to 12,400,000 in 1936, 10,630,000 in 1935. With a carryover of 14,000,000 bales from last year, this bumper crop can mean...
...politics as a hobby, while Wilson had been writing and teaching them. Like the other muckrakers of that period,--Upton Sinclair, Judge Ben Lindsay, David Graham Phillips, and Lincoln Steffens--at heart Colonel House had the ideals of the reformer. After gaining Wilson's confidence, the shy and inconspicuous Texan won the opportunity to put his reforms into practice. But he dealt mainly with appointments and policies; he really chose Wilson's cabinet, making his friend Bryan Secretary of State, and he appointed many ambassadors. A Snow White among wolves, he worked for "peace without victory" in Europe...
...House, TVA appropriations are under the Military Affairs Committee, whose new chairman, Kentuckian Andrew Jackson May, is a crusty opponent of the TVA power program and willing to rake all the muck possible. Best thing Majority Leader Sam Rayburn could do under the circumstances was to trust his fellow Texan Maury Maverick, who had introduced a resolution calling for a joint House and Senate investigation of all charges...