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...year by giving setting-up exercises, passing and kicking practice. It was also professors' week. They returned from their vacations, tidied their desks and notes, made up class rolls, speculated upon the youths soon to be submitted them for intellectual advancement. Some professors, some parents thus speculating read "Ferguson-Rex" by an anonymous contributor in the Atlantic Monthly for September. Ferguson is an undergraduate "leader," the college "man of the hour." The portrait is not without truth but is perhaps too surely executed. The contributor called himself " '90" and erred, admittedly, on the side of optimism and generosity...
...victory, in the Texas Democratic primary for Governor, of Mrs. Miriam A. Ferguson, wife of a one-time Governor who was impeached, was hailed as a triumph of the anti-Klan movement. Last week it was followed 'by the resignation of Thomas B. Love, Democratic National Committeeman from Texas for the past four years. Said Mr. Love...
...think it proper to make a frank statement of my position. Some of my friends have advised me to announce that I will not listen to Mr. Ferguson's advice or permit him to influence me in any of my official acts. I cannot make a statement of that nature, for it would not be true. There has always existed that degree of confidence and understanding between Governor Ferguson and me which should exist between every husband and wife. I have always been loyal to my husband and family, and if I thought for a minute that my election...
...state of Texas had held its second primary. The contestants were Judge Felix D. Robertson (with Klan support) and Miriam A. Ferguson, wife of a Governor who was impeached and removed from office in 1918. She and her husband, who is a hot campaigner, made the Klan the issue-and "Ma" Ferguson won by a margin of about 90,000 votes in a total of almost 800,000. In Texas, a Democratic nominee is considered as good as elected and "Ma" Ferguson is now the Democratic nominee...
After her victory was assured, Mrs. Ferguson summed up her opinions...