Word: fergusons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dartmouth 1930 runners on the other hand have D. G. Ferguson, a for-men Exeter track captain and helder of the Dartmouth three mile cross country record, and William Parry, another experienced runner, in their line-up. This Freshman event promises a hard race, with possibly a new record for the distance...
...During the past year, I recall with special satisfaction among other things your treatment of the Scope's Trial, your weekly resume of the complicated political situation in France, your account of the Ferguson campaign in Texas, the Frank (killer) Norris episode and your fictitious, but essentially truthlike and delightful Helen Wills' Diary...
Some months ago Governess Miriam A. ("Ma") Ferguson of Texas made a promise-that she would resign her executive position if she failed to beat young redpolled Attorney General Dan Moody in the gubernatorial primary. She was beaten by apparently an absolute majority, announced that she would call a special session of the Legislature on Sept. 13, after which she would resign. Texans keep their word, play square...
Then the news was spread that Dan Moody had failed to attain an absolute majority,* hence Mrs. Ferguson was not eliminated unless she desired to keep her prom ise. She decided not to do so, saying ambiguously "a challenge issued by Jim is not the acceptance of a challenge by Miriam." True, able politicians like onetime Senator Joseph Weldon Bailey considered the campaign closed, refused to have anything more to do with the Fergusons, and Texans generally were sated with Ku Klux Klan claptrap. What difference? Jim made a speech...
...outraged" public voted apathetically, again defeated "Ma" and Jim Ferguson, this time by a majority of over 220,000 votes...