Word: austin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Austin, Tex., Marian McGregor Payne, 29, announced her candidacy for the State Legislature. She thus became the first U.S. hero's widow of World War II to run for political office. Her husband, Lieut. Colonel John Payne, son of a University of Texas professor, was in the first contingent of U.S. flyers to reach the Mediterranean. He was killed a year ago. Cairo's big army airport is named for him. Mrs. Payne, with a four-year-old daughter to support, has already begun studying law. Last week no male Texan appeared ungallant or injudicious enough to contest...
...SERVICEMAN'S NAME WITHHELD) Austin...
President Roosevelt left the machinery of national service to Congress. The bill currently pending in both houses was introduced eleven months ago by two Republicans: Vermont's Austin and New York's Wadsworth. Its essential provisions...
...Austin High School kids worked so energetically on their newfound music that they hired balls to threw their own dances, just so that they could play. They sold tickets with equal enthusiasm among their classmates and the chronic inhabitants of neighborhood bars...
Eventually Bud, along with Jim Lanigan and the McPartland brothers, got diplomas from Austin. It was an honorary move that highlighted their appearance at the 1942 Senior Prom...