Word: boykin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While past-President Truman was generating heat in California, Presidential Hopeful Harriman was setting forth on a chilly, overcast morning in Mclntosh, Ala. (near the spot where New Yorker Aaron Burr was captured in 1807), for a day of hunting with his host, Democratic Representative Frank Boykin, and Alabama's Governor James Folsom. Before breakfast Harriman had shot a 22-lb. turkey; after a quail breakfast, the huntsmen took off to try their skill against the deer on Boykin's 100,000-acre preserve. Although he tried three different stands, Harriman had no luck. That afternoon Harriman spoke...
...Senator Richard Russell for fairness, Washington's Senator Henry Jackson for enduring youth, Illinois' Senator Paul Douglas for scholarly character, Alabama's Senator Lister Hill for hard work, Texas' Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn for planning ability, Alabama's Representative Frank Boykin for handshaking, Coca-Cola's James J. Farley for his memory for names, Independence's Harry Truman for the common touch, Mrs. Richard Neuberger (wife of Oregon's junior Senator) for her campaign ability. Notable modest omission: Tennessee's Presidential Candidate Estes Kefauver for his White House fixation...
Like a premature March squall, Tallulah Bankhead blew into Washington, D.C., and set up a noisier commotion than both Houses of Congress combined. Invited by Alabama's Democratic Representative Frank ("Everything's made for love") Boykin to testify on the capital's need for a civic auditorium, Alabamian Bankhead gave her blessing to the project, but begged off from appearing in a Valentine message to "Darling Congressman Boykin." Scrawled she: "Ten a.m. is an unprecedented time for a child of the grease paint to cope with the sandman." Since Tallulah would not go to Capitol Hill...
...Boykin's bill, if made law, would destroy whatever usefulness the National Guard may still have for the Army...
...Boykin's bill will probably die in committee. What will not die is the issue his bill raised: if men are recruited and organized on a fight-with-your-buddies basis, then morale is bound to plummet when the Army, for one excellent reason or another, breaks up the regional divisions. Until the Defense Department finds the courage to stand up to the politically powerful National Guard Association, U.S. defense is going to waste billions of dollars and much precious manpower on an antiquated and disruptive form of military organization...