Word: daniels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When psalm-singing, radiorating Wilbert Lee ("Pass the Biscuits, Pappy") O'Daniel became Texas' 32nd Governor, he turned over his flour company to his two good-looking young sons, Pat and Mike. He also left them a sales idea that sounded sure-fire for Bible Belt sales of Hillbilly Flour: a tithe certificate with every sack. Purchasers of Hillbilly turned over the certificates to their churches as coupon shares in 10% of the profits of W. Lee O'Daniel Flour Co., reputed to have made Lee O'Daniel a comfortable fortune before he went to Austin...
...those who preferred admirals to ships there were 20-odd polite portraits by such U. S. classics as Gilbert Stuart and Charles Willson Peale, depicting bigwigs of early U. S. naval days. Crustiest entry: a full-length portrait by 18th-Century, German-born Genre Painter Daniel Nicolas Chodowieki of John Paul Jones standing in a misty landscape with a defiant expression and one day's growth of beard...
...Daniel A. Buckley scholarships to Coleridge A. Braithwaite 1G, Frank E. Duddy, Jr. 1G, and Pasquale F. Frisoll '40, of Cambridge...
Nondescript Utterance. In the Dominion last week a teapot tempest blew up from Ontario as the Attorney General of this Province, politically inexperienced Gordon Daniel Conant, 65, who has been in public life less than three years, again cackled on his favorite theme of British-U. S.-solidarity-to-save-the-world...
...against a State Representative (TIME, March 25). Last week Circuit Judge Thomas J. Rowe slapped a $2,000 fine on the Post-Dispatch, dismissed the citation against Managing Editor Benjamin Harrison Reese, but hit Editorial Editor Ralph Coghlan with a fine of $200 and 20 days in jail, Cartoonist Daniel Robert Fitzpatrick with $100 fine and ten days...