Word: baileys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Edward Battersby Bailey, of the University of Glasgow, Geology...
...Great Bailey...
Your Aug. 17 issue speaks of Joseph W. Bailey Jr. as "son of Texas' late great Senator." As Joe Sr. had to resign from the U. S. Senate because of his accepting money and favors from John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil, I fail to see where he achieved any greatness. To me he ranks with Jim & Ma Ferguson as cheap politicians whose memory makes decent Texans blush with shame...
...investigation ever disproved Senator Bailey's contention that he was unaware that Waters-Pierce Oil Co., from which he borrowed $3,300, was still controlled by the Standard Oil Trust. Exonerated, Texas' Bailey returned to the Senate, resigned in 1913, stayed out of politics until 1920 when he ran unsuccessfully for Governor. He died in a Sherman, Tex. courtroom...
...Deal. They included Missouri's onetime Senator James A. Reed, Woodrow Wilson's onetime Secretary of State Bainbridge Colby, Massachusetts' onetime Governor Joseph B. Ely, Col. Henry Breckenridge, who ran this year in many a primary as an anti-Roosevelt Democrat, Joseph W. Bailey Jr., son of Texas' late great Senator, some twoscore political has-beens. Virtually every anti-Roosevelt Democrat who still has political ambitions stayed discreetly away...