Word: band
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Oilman Tom F. Hunter of Wichita Falls, seasoned campaigners all. And so, to the grief of all these gentlemen, did Flour Salesman Wilbert Lee O'Daniel of Fort Worth (TIME, July 25). At Kilgore, on the night before primary day, Candidate O'Daniel struck up his hillbilly band, introduced Children Pat, Molly & Mike, who sang "Please Pass the Biscuits, Pappy," declaimed: "It's going to be the handwriting on the wall for these professional politicians...
...Aboard the Roosevelt third-term band wagon stepped Michigan's Governor Frank Murphy. Speaking at Traverse City, he said: "The nation comes first. . . . We may have to draft the President for four more years of leadership...
...vice president of Burrus Mill & Elevator Co., Mr. O'Daniel used to plug sales of "Light Crust Flour" with a "hillbilly band" over a Texas network. A persuasive announcer and able musician, Salesman O'Daniel popularized not only his company's flour but songs of his own, Beautiful Texas and Sons of the Alamo. Four years ago he formed his own Hillbilly Flour Co., made a half-million dollars, got elected president of the Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce. He and his hillbillies stayed...
...haired, 46, conservatively dressed, grammatical but homespun, Wilbert Lee O'Daniel has further assets in a pretty grey-haired wife named Merle, two good-looking boys in their teens, Pat & Mike, and a cute 16-year-old daughter, Molly. All musical, the children accompanied him and his hillbilly band everywhere. Their meetings soon far surpassed other candidates' in size...
National Music Camp (Wed. 9:30 p.m. NBC-Blue). National High School Orchestra, National High School Band from Interlochen, Mich...