Word: fergusons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...passenger train on the Santa Fé railroad rumbled smoothly through the night over the plains of Texas. A proud train crew was in charge; proud because back in one of the Pullmans slept a handsome, motherly middle-aged woman, no less a personage than Mrs. Miriam A. ("Ma") Ferguson, Governess of the whole huge state...
...matter of fact, it would have made little difference to the outcome of her campaign had Governess Ferguson been brought to bed by the wreck. Practically speaking, it was not her campaign at all but another campaign by her vigorous, fire-eating husband Jim against two other candidates: red-headed Attorney General Dan Moody, aged 32, and a politically inconsequential wight named Lynch Davidson...
...gamut of organizations is matched by an equal variety of women leaders-leaders of political causes, such as Maud Wood Park, Belle Sherwin, Mrs. Belmont, Alice Paul; leaders in practical politics, ranging from Ruth McCormick and Harriet Taylor Upton to Congresswomen Kahn, Rogers, Norton, Governesses Ross and Ferguson, who are really not leaders of women's movements at all; leaders of "social" movements such as Edith Rockefeller McCormick; leaders who have distinguished themselves in their own professions, such as Judge Florence Allen, Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, Jane Addams; women who have approached public life from poverty, from the bourgeoisie...
...When Jim Ferguson heard that Moody had accepted the challenge, he threw up his hands and ejaculated: "Dan is a blowed-up sucker and a gone fawnskin...
...should prevent either of the two from getting a majority, neither will have to resign. Otherwise one or the other will have to resign after the primary in July, and it is just conceivable that both might have to resign under the literal terms of the agreement?if Mrs. Ferguson should win with a majority of less than 25,000. Between 800,000 and 1,000,000 votes are expected to be cast in the primary, since the state is watching breathlessly the Moody-Ferguson battle...