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This week Texas is in the throes of a rebellion against the national Democratic Party. Leader of the rebellion is Texas Governor Allan Shivers, a man who alternates between boldness and caution, who often talks in sweeping absolutes and temperamentally prefers compromise. At present, Shivers seems to be in one of his bold moods. For size, for noise, for drama, his upheaval seems peculiarly Texan...
...Good Marriage. Shivers (rhymes with rivers) was born Oct. 5, 1907 at Lufkin, where his father, Robert A. Shivers, was clerking in a store. Later, the elder Shivers practiced law at Woodville, then became a district judge at Port Arthur. Young Allan, a studious boy, hung around the courthouse so much that he acquired a nickname: "Judge...
...Allan went off to study law at the University of Texas, but dropped out at the end of the first year because the family purse was nearly empty. After working as a laborer and clerk for an oil company for 2½ years, he finally got back to the university. Then, during vacations, he worked as a subscription salesman for TIME. After law school, he went into his father's law office in Port Arthur. Practice was meager, but at the end of his first year he settled a case with a big fee: $800. With that, Shivers launched...
...Allan Shivers became a millionaire-by marriage. At a yachting party at Port Arthur in 1935, the young state senator had met pretty Marialice Shary, adopted daughter and only child of John Shary, pioneer real-estate promoter in the lower Rio Grande Valley. They were married on his 30th birthday. When John Shary died in 1945, Shivers became general manager of the mammoth John H. Shary Enterprises, which include vast citrus fruit groves, nurseries and canneries, farms, ranches, real estate, irrigation and oil-development companies, and a weekly newspaper (the Mission, Texas Times...
...loyalists stayed quiet and let the other two groups fight it out. Governor Allan Shivers, in his keynote speech, stated the case for the compromisers. He insisted that the state party was honor-bound to put the national party's nominees on the ballot: "I have been one of those who has sought a solution to our dilemma-the dilemma faced by lifelong Texas Democrats who sincerely want to vote their own convictions without leaving the party of their fathers ... In my opinion there is no legal and moral way of accomplishing the desired purpose . . . It is time...