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...Sterling, wealthy publisher of the Houston Post Dispatch (circulation: 69,000), chairman of the State Highway Commission; and Mrs. Miriam A. ("Ma") Ferguson, onetime (1925-1927) governor. No. 1 Sterling stumpster: Governor Dan Moody. No. 1 Ferguson stumpster: Husband James E. ("Farmer Jim") Ferguson, removed by impeachment from the governorship in 1917. The issues: "Fergusonism"; "Common People" v. "Millionaires." Never before had Texas been through such a bitter personal campaign as followed the first primary a month ago when Mrs. Ferguson led eleven candidates but lacked a majority vote (TIME, Aug. 4). Husband Ferguson drew enormous crowds, set them wild...
...good die young," is a favorite, sardonic saying of General Don Valeriano Weyler y Nicolau, Marquess of Tenerife, Grandee of Spain, long famed among U. S. citizens as "Butcher Weyler" because of his ruthless military governorship of Cuba, prime cause of the Spanish-American...
...badly Senator Grundy had blundered soon became apparent, at Secretary Mellon's 75th birthday party in Pittsburgh. Mr. Lewis was present. He watched the Mellon leaders offer the governorship over his head to three men, saw each turn it down. Before he left the party, it was made entirely plain to him that he could expect no Mellon support...
...Hughes exposed the Consolidated Co.'s gas monopoly, forced rates based on overcapitalization down 20%. With this crusade over, he plunged into the next as counsel for the Armstrong Insurance Commission which dredged up the hidden slime of insurance companies' greed and corruption. Popular acclaim swept him into the Governorship in 1906 over William Randolph Hearst. There he proceeded to execute the pledges of a "reform" administration. He was re-elected on the promise to drive horseracing and gambling out of the State...
...Poling's connection with his church had been happy, but his tendency has always been expansive, his influence moving ever outward. Having played potent football at Dallas College (Oregon), having run for the Governorship of Ohio (1912) at the age of 28 chiefly to boost Prohibition (he was too young to hold office), having written novels and campaigned for Labor, he entered organized religion with energy unabated and was soon not only pastor of a big metropolitan church but editor-in-chief of The Christian Herald, President of the General Synod of the Reformed Church in America, President...