Word: daniels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...than on bright young New Dealers to support his domestic policies. And Texas gave him Garner and Dies, thorns in his side. But a greater irony was that political wiseacres did not think the nation's smartest politician had a chance to win, if Texas Governor O'Daniel, who is no politician at all, decided otherwise...
People who still think of W. Lee O'Daniel as "Pass the Biscuits, Pappy" are way behind the times. Direct, unpredictable, religious, forever outsmarting the politicos by his simplicity, the Governor of Texas has become the State's most popular officeholder. He is passionately Texan as only a true-born Midwesterner can be (Ohio was his birthplace). When his hillbilly band sings Beautiful Texas, the song he wrote himself, crowds hear a note of unsophisticated faith that nobody else gives them...
...serve as Senator Morris Sheppard's successor until a new Senator can be elected, Texas' Governor Wilbert Lee ("Pass the Biscuits, Pappy") O'Daniel appointed crusty, crotchety Andrew Jackson Houston, 87, only living son of Texas' founder-hero, Sam Houston...
...Daniel A. Buckley scholarships have been awarded the following...
With his wife of five months, gusty, marcelled Kansan John Daniel Miller Hamilton, who campaignmanaged Landon to victory in Maine & Vermont in 1936, bought a $100,000 Main Line estate, settled down to become a Philadelphia lawyer...