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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Bonus for the Boys | 8/8/1955 | See Source »

Open Invitation. The tribulations of Bascom Giles are part of the vast and complex land scandals which have rocked the state (TIME, March 7) and cost the taxpayers an estimated $10 million. The scandals revolve around the Texas land program, a 1946 amendment to the state constitution that authorized $100 million in public funds to enable veterans to buy land. Under the program, qualified veterans could purchase ranch or farm land for a 5% down payment, with 40 years to pay off the balance. The state furnished the unpaid balance and held title until the veteran had retired the loan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Bonus for the Boys | 8/8/1955 | See Source »

...land-proud Texas, the program (conceived and largely written by Bascom Giles) seemed a fine policy, enabling many a young man to become a landowner, and providing a much more enduring bonus for war service than cash. But the loosely written law and the $100 million were an open invitation to racketeers and grafters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Bonus for the Boys | 8/8/1955 | See Source »

PORTRAIT OF AN AMERICAN (344 pp.)-Bascom N. Timmons-Holf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Solid Citizen | 4/13/1953 | See Source »

Biographer Bascom Timmons, veteran Washington correspondent, uses these as springboards to dive into the deeper waters of the man's character and career as lawyer, banker, statesman, philanthropist and Coolidge's Vice President. Unfortunately, Author Timmons spends most of his time splashing around amid the floating debris of Dawes's public speeches and old nespaper headlines. The Impact of Portrait of an American is not so much that of memorable biography as that of a memorable man who put "Is it right?" before "Will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Solid Citizen | 4/13/1953 | See Source »

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