Word: goosenecked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hearing to ascertain facts about the Colonel's domicile many a loyal old Texan went before Surrogate Owen's Commissioner, Raymond C. Prime, to vouch for Hetty Green's London-born son as a Texan. Among them was a tall, lanky Negro named William Madison ("Gooseneck Bill") McDonald, 70 and rich. He was Colonel Green's political lieutenant between 1897 and 1909 at a salary of $575 per month. Recalled...
After Hetty Green threatened to disinherit him if he accepted the gubernatorial nomination in 1906, the Negro related, Colonel Green dropped out of politics except to return to Terrell to vote in each Presidential election. Said "Gooseneck Bill" McDonald of himself: "I quit being a Republican in 1928." When hearings moved to Miami last week, testimony showed that Floridians had tried without success to make the Colonel a Floridian. Said Colonel Green's onetime Star Island neighbor, Webb Jay: "He said he wouldn't consider transferring his domicile...