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Before Texas Democrats went to the polls one day last week, they witnessed one of the bitterest political campaigns in Texas' history. In the runoff primary for governor, between Governor Allan Shivers and Austin Lawyer Ralph Yarborough, the big issue was clear-cut: Yarborough, representing Democrats who stayed with the national party organization in 1952, charged that Shivers committed political treason by swinging Texas to Dwight Eisenhower...
...Maryland beauty whose charm helped her into highest Washington society, and whose Dixie devotion landed her in jail as a Confederate spy. Her political mentor was Calhoun. "Wild Rose" picked up such valuable information that President Jefferson Davis and General Robert E. Lee expressed their thanks to her. But Allan Pinkerton, head of the Chicago detective agency, finally caught her with some elementary spy work of his own (he peered through a window of her Washington home, saw a Union officer hand her a map). Placed under house arrest. Rebel Rose managed to continue her espionage by such devices...
...Dionne farmhouse near the village of Callander, Ont. on the morning of May 28, 1934. The odds againsf the birth of quintuplets were 41.6 million to one. The odds that all would live for long were even greater. Three of the baby girls were delivered by midwives before Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe arrived to deliver Marie and Emilie; he never could recall which was born last. In all they weighed about 12 Ibs. The doctor held little hope for their survival and left them with the midwives...
...summer long the eyes of Texas have been upon Governor Allan Shivers and his campaign for an unprecedented third term. His opponent in the Democratic primary. Attorney Ralph Yarborough of Austin, uncovered the embarrassing fact that Shivers had turned a $425,000 profit on a $25,000 investment in a strange Rio Grande Valley land deal eight years ago. Yarborough, who lost to Shivers in 1952 by a margin of almost 2 to 1, also kept reminding Texas Democrats that Shivers had swung Democratic Texas behind Dwight Eisenhower in the 1952 presidential election...
...York Central Railroad stock last March, it did not look as if they would hang on to it very long. The deal gave them the right to sell half of it back to Robert R. Young's Alleghany Corp. and to Young's crony and financial angel, Allan Kirby, at the same price they had paid: $25 a share. Last week they did sell a big chunk of the stock. Richardson sold 200,000 shares to Kirby, thus repaying the $5,000,000 that Kirby had lent him to buy the stock. Another 300,000 shares, in effect...