Word: boykin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Angry cries of protest sounded throughout Alabama and Mississippi. The 31st's commander, Major General Alexander G. Paxton, announced that morale and training had "hit a new low." Alabama's fat and usually jovial Representative Frank Boykin boiled up, introduced in Congress a sweeping resolution designed to stop the Army from breaking up National Guard divisions. Among its provisions: "In any case where a division of the . . . National Guard shall have been ordered into the active military service of the United States, no unit or component of such division shall be separated, detached, or otherwise removed from...
Symington then dipped for a bigger fish, and brought up Frank Prince, 54, assistant manager of RFC's central loan office, and a distant cousin of Alabama's party-giving Representative Frank W. Boykin, a millionaire Congressman whose standard line of greeting is "everything's made for love." Two years ago the Mobile Paper Co. asked for a $750,000 RFC loan. To get it, said Papermaker Reuben E. Hartman, he had to turn over 40% of the company's stock, with a par value of $640,000, to children, brothers and friends of Congressman Boykin...
...first, Prince denied that he had ever made such a call. But when RFC investigators found records showing that he had, and from Cousin Boykin's own office at that, Prince's memory improved. Still denying the accusations, he admitted the phone call. Last week, when Stu Symington sternly asked for an explanation, Frank Prince resigned...