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...nine incumbent Democratic Congressmen were running at large for the eight seats left to Alabama after reapportionment resulting from the 1960 census. Last week the ninth man turned out to be none other than Mobile's Frank W. Boykin, 77, a flamboyant fixture in Washington for 28 years, a Mason, an Elk, a Moose, a Shriner, and a very Odd Fellow...
...multimillionaire (real estate, timber, livestock), with an imposing mane of grey hair thatching an elephantine hulk (250 lbs.), Boykin's political stock in trade was a boisterous greeting: "Hello there, Pardner! By God, everything's made for love!" Funny thing was, Boykin really meant it. "God is love, see?" he explained. "He made everything, didn't he? So everything is made for love, get it?" He took genuine pleasure in doing favors for friends. He established a 100,000-acre game preserve in Choctaw County, to which he brought planeloads of folks from Washington and all points...
...Boykin threw a testimonial party for Texas' Sam Rayburn in a Washington hotel, invited just about everybody in the phone book. Winston Churchill cabled his regrets, but 900 others came to sample a score of cases of Scotch and bourbon, along with Quebec salmon, Alabama venison, Montana elk, bear meat from the Okefenokee Swamp, Georgia turkey, and antelope from Chugwater, Wyo. Boykin's all-for-love motto was bantered about the banquet hall. Everybody had a great time, and jolly Frank was delighted to fork over...
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...