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...record, the governor let it be known from Austin that he was abandoning his long struggle to keep Good Friend Morrow on the committee. "Certainly," he said, the national committee is "entitled to have a national committeeman who is friendly to the work" they are doing. Morrow could not swallow that. An hour after urging him to resign, he said, the governor "made a speech crying that he would never bend a knee to the will of the national committee. Well, why in God's name does he expect me to bend a knee to the same bunch...
...Bascom Giles was a prosperous businessman and a durable politician, well known all over Texas. A nourishing real-estate operator, he was past grand master of the Grand Lodge of Texas, Ancient and Accepted Order of Freemasonry, and a prominent and popular figure in the state government at Austin. Texas' land commissioner for 16 years, he was re-elected for the eighth time last year, but disqualified himself and astonished his friends when he refused to take the oath of office. Last week in a courtroom in Austin, Bascom Giles was convicted as an accomplice to the theft...
...know, hopefully sent word to Hilda Weinert, the state national committeewoman. one of the few Texas Democrats friendly with both Shivers and the National Committee. He wanted her to help avoid trouble "in working out Mr. Butler's schedule." She tried to arrange a meeting in Austin of party leaders from both factions. But the loyalist leadership balked, and the Shivers Democrats decided to boycott arriving Chairman Butler. Snapped Mr. Sam, "I can't make people cooperate...
Invitation to Uvalde. The day after Butler landed in Texas, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram ran a big, black headline: PARTY FEUD ERUPTS. Governor Shivers indignantly announced that Butler had refused an invitation to lunch in Austin. Drawing a bead on Butler, the governor labeled the refusal "regrettable for the future of the Democratic Party." Replied Butler: "I will be happy if the governor comes"-to see Butler...
...record. Britain's Selwyn Lloyd, listening to the same interminable speech by Soviet, Polish, Czech, Ukrainian and Byelo Russian delegates, remarked in Oxonian tones: "If I may lapse into the idiom of bebop, just dig that cracked record." Sometimes U.N. humor has been less intentional, as when Warren Austin advised the Arabs and the Jews to "settle this problem in a true Christian spirit...