Word: daniele
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Austin, Tex., whooped and whanged in the style that has made them the Lone Star State's biggest air attraction. The studio audience of 200 noisily demanded encore after encore. But presently the band and its leader, Flour Salesman W. Lee ("Pass the Biscuits, Pappy") O'Daniel, had to leave to perform before a crowd of 70,000 that packed the University of Texas stadium...
There the hillbillies and 37 other bands tooted in turn for five hours, and 10,000 school children raised their voices in chorus. At last Crooner O'Daniel stood up to take his inaugural oath as Governor...
...sworn in by Chief Justice Cureton of the State Supreme Court, Governor O'Daniel made a grave face. Said the showman Governor: "I pray that glamor and color will be eliminated from our legislative session and that seriousness and dignity will reign supreme...
...deficit, and 2) redeem his campaign pledge to provide 830 monthly pensions for Texas' needy old folks. Stony-faced sat the legislators as he began reading his message, which he had typed out sitting on an apple box in his dismantled house while the O'Daniel family moved into the Governor's mansion...
Among the book gifts 500 volumes Herbert Weir Smith, former professor at were given from the library of the late Harvard, by his wife in his memory. A box of Daniel Webster's letters and a library of 1,800 volumes was received from the estate of Mrs. Ella Haven Ross, of Boston...