Word: boykin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When a whim gets into big (250 pounds), jolly Congressman Frank Boykin, it sits there gnawing like a boll weevil until he does something about it. Like when he was 16, a poof farm boy, and got the urge to make money. Frank went out, became one of Alabama's biggest lumber and turpentine tycoons, and made himself a few million. Or like the other day, when he got the idea he should do something for his old pal, Speaker Sam Rayburn...
Williams Spares: Aycrigge, Fisher, Talbot, Fuller, Boykin, McFarian, Gardiner...
Third period: Scoring: (H) Paine (McGrath) 7:13; (H) Everts (Macmillan) 17:10. Penalties: (H) Acker (handling the puck); (W) Boykin (roughing.) HARVARD (7) WILLIAMS (1) Loring, lw lw, Brown Ayres, c c, Nichols Harding, rw rw, Comfort Dreher, ld ld, Courter Summers, rd rd, Cole Fenn, g g, Hannock
...House of Representatives stood an unprecedented group for an unprecedented ceremony: proud young Mrs. Robert Joseph Coar, wife of the Capitol's radio-room chief, fat and pouting four-month-old Robert Jr. in her arms. There, while Alabama's Representative Frank W. Boykin and friends looked on, Grandfather the Rev. Arthur H. Coar of Pembroke, Mass, baptized the child. Whisked out just before Congress convened, Mrs. Coar explained: "We dedicated him to God and his country...