Word: conner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years four men have played ring-around-a-rosy in Mississippi politics, now denouncing, now supporting each other. Hardened to sudden shifts, Mississippi "peckerwoods"* have listened for two decades with comparatively straight faces to Senators Byron Patton Harrison and Theodore Gilmore Bilbo, to Paul Burney Johnson and Martin Sennett Conner. In 1935 they began listening to another man, Hugh Lawson White, and elected him Governor, some say, for the novelty of a new political face...
Last week came the run-off Democratic primary for the Governorship. Once more the lineups were twisted unbelievably. Now Pat Harrison was supporting Mike Conner, a man he had denounced up and down the State in 1936. Now "The Man" Bilbo was supporting Paul Burney Johnson, whom he had denounced sporadically ever since 1918, when Johnson whipped him in a race for a House seat. Governor White laid off, laid cables for 1940 when he wants Bilbo's Senate seat...
...next year, took his biggest swipe yet at general age levels. Upon his recommendation, the President promoted Brigadier General Henry H. Arnold.* 52, to be major general and chief of air corps; Brigadier General William H. Wilson, 60. Coast Artillery, to succeed retiring Major General Fox Conner as commander of the First Army; Brigadier General Robert McCandlass Beck Jr., 59, an assistant chief of staff, to succeed retiring Major General Frank McCoy. Also upped were seven colonels to brigadiers. Average...
...second inning Holworthy was leading 5 to 4 due to superior fielding by White at second and O'Conner at shortstop. The hitting of Powers of Matthews led the drive to stop Holworthy...
...teams and their managers as announced by Homer D. Peabody, Freshman Class President, are: Wigglesworth and Apley, Charles Clark; Thayer, Mortimer Rayman; Matthews and Grays, Kingdon W. Swayne; Massachusetts, Lionel, and Union, Norman W. Getsinger; Stoughton, Hollis, and Holworthy, Jerry O'Conner; Weld, Straus, and Mower, Lucian Zoll...