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Texas' biggest political news of the week was. however, the race to succeed Mr. Allred as Governor. In a field of twelve for the Democratic nomination (virtual election), leading contestants until last month were Attorney General William ("Bill") McCraw and redheaded Railroad Commissioner Ernest Othmer ("Red Colonel") Thompson. Then into the race stepped Wilbert Lee O'Daniel, of Fort Worth, a radio character well-known to Texans, for years a flour salesman, later a miller...
...Kansas, he snapped back: "Sure. I moved to Texas 15 years ago . . . because I like Texas and want to live here." Awestruck observers predicted that if he did not get nominated by the required majority, Lee O'Daniel's vote total would be one of the two biggest and put him in the run-off primary. Meantime, Wilbert Lee O'Daniel said soberly: "I don't know whether or not I'll get elected, but, boy! it sure is good for the flour business...
...pretty girls of Memphis, and looked over the model plantation set up by the Emergency Relief Administration at Dyess, Ark. He talked to organizers of the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union, to planters, to bespectacled, intellectual Oscar Johnston, resident president of Delta and Pine Land Co., operators of the biggest U. S. cotton plantation. He looked in on a historic, 100-year-old brothel in Vicksburg, and talked with an educated Negro who told him that white folks, when they were sitting on the porch, complained that Negroes were lazy. He heard of a white man who had killed...
...Biggest professional organization in the U. S. is the National Education Association, which numbers some 225,000 (four-fifths women) of the nation's 1,000,000 school teachers. But teachers, who in many communities are expected to be politically as well as physically chaste, seldom raise their voices outside the classroom. Consequently they are perennially startled at the bold talk that springs up at the N. E. A.'s annual conventions, attended chiefly by the outspoken fringe...
...Chicago does two percent of the U. S. book business. At Marshall Field's, the biggest Chicago bookstore. My Son, My Son! was the ranking favorite, with Middle Westerners showing a surprising interest in The Basic Writings of Sigmnnd Freud...