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Host Carter marshalled the Farley-Garner party out to his box at Arlington. Downs to witness the rebirth of horse-race betting in Texas. There an unforeseen unpleasantness occurred. While Host Carter was out making a bet, Governor Miriam (''Ma") Ferguson and her husband James, who was impeached as Governor in 1917, popped in uninvited to chat with Postmaster General Farley. The Carter v. Ferguson feud is an old one. At a football game in 1925, Amon Carter, full of high spirits, paraded back & forth behind the Fergusons' seats crowing in behalf of the man who succeeded...
...doctor diligently studies a patient's chart and then asks the attendant nurse for the patient's pulse rate. Still another surprise is in store. For just as the doctor is about to inject insulin to revive the patient from post-operative shock, in bursts Interne Ferguson to snatch the hypodermic out of his superior's hand, administer his own entirely different treatment...
...Ferguson (Alexander Kirkland) has a bad day of it all around. His rich fiancée (Margaret Barker, a striking blonde with a thick Colony Club accent) gives him to understand that he must choose between dedicating his life to medicine and research, or living with her in the comfort of a Parkavian practice. At the critical moment, a little student nurse impulsively surrenders herself to Interne Ferguson...
...orking with Senator Sheppard against Repeal were two onetime Governors, Pat Neff and Dan Moody. Working against them were Governor "Ma" Ferguson arid her husband Jim. The Roosevelt machine functioned with quiet efficiency on orders from Washington and Postmaster General Farley; theme: "The good old doctrine of States' Rights, so dear to the hearts of all Texans." Vice President Garner quit fishing long enough to announce that he was voting...
...will have a hard time with The Farm. It starts off with middle-aged Colonel MacDougal who, planning a Paradise patterned after Rousseau, came West from Maryland in the spring of 1815, cleared the woods, raised a family with his fat young wife. One of his daughters married Jamie Ferguson, a huge, serious red-haired Scot, who settled at the Farm because it seemed to suit him, lived on there for the rest of a long and violent life. Jamie Ferguson's daughter Ellen married a great-grandson of the Pennsylvania Dutch van Essens who settled in Midland County...