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...Senator Sheppard arose, not to praise Prohibition, but in a desperate last-ditch defense of it. Waiting at the Senate door was a Repeal resolution. To keep it off the floor the little Texan cleared his throat and said...
...publicity. Last week an obliging Post Office Department presented it with nationwide notice by confiscating the July 15 issue as "treasonous matter." Announced reason: an article headlined, WHY DON'T THE WORKERS RAISE HELL? Flaying the Unemployed for cowardice the article demanded: "Can any one . . . visualize a Texan, or a man from Kansas or Kentucky, permitting, 50 years ago, him self to starve, or his family to suffer from lack of food? So long as there was a dollar's worth of food in the country, and his rifle or revolver was in working order, either of these...
...civic benefit than 25 donkeys which a onetime mayor had bought, it announced last month that it would kill the donkeys, feed them "to the lions (TIME, June 27). Last week the announcement brought the response the board had doubtless expected. From his estate near Philadelphia, Walter McKinney, onetime Texan, telegraphed an offer of $187.50 for the 25 donkeys at $7.50 each, ordered them shipped via Southern Steamship Co. (of which he is assistant to the president) to his home. Said he: "My boys can make better use of them than the lions...
...victory, 5-0, over third-rate Mexico at New Orleans. Gangling, nerveless Ellsworth Vines, U. S. national champion and leading candidate for phenomenon, was still short of his top form. He seemed absentminded, possibly because of his planned marriage in June to Verle Low of California. Texan Wilmer Allison, a plodder, showed a few moments of brilliant tennis. The supposedly invincible doubles team of Allison & John Van Ryn needed four sets to win. This team will play Australia next; then, if victorious, the winner of the European zone finals; then, possibly, France (July 29-31) at the Stade Roland Garros...
...native-born Texan and a rustic who has never shot a gun, baited a hook, used tobacco in any form, or drunk anything stronger than Brazos water.''* Thus wrote the late President Samuel Palmer Brooks of Baylor University (Waco. Tex.) in his introduction to Battles for Peace, a collection of addresses by his good friend Pat Morris Neff. Many people might have doubted that such a Texan ever existed. Pat Neff not only existed but became Texas' Governor (1921-25). Well-known now is the story of how. hunting with a party which included the late William Jennings Bryan...