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Texas' Governor Beauford Jester was so boiling mad he told newsmen, "You can't print what I think." The underwater lands are one of the juiciest holdings of the Texas General Land Office, which uses the proceeds to help finance the state's schools; 1947's royalties from submerged oil drilling were $14,800,000. Just before Tom Clark filed suit, the board had collected $2,055,709 from private drillers for leases on 79,000 underwater acres...
...they did not capture Texas. In an attempt to get their candidates on the ballot they took full-page newspaper advertisements, pleaded that the whole Democrat-Dixiecrat problem be presented to the voters in a referendum. The Texas State Central Committee, dominated by Governor Beauford Jester, refused. The Dixiecrats still had hope-though their chances looked slim, they were hell-bent to get control of the Texas State Democratic Convention next month...
...hands. Said he reflectively: "Before I go, let's look at my assets. I'm happy and I've made a little dough." Then, with a grin, he added: "Four years ago in Chicago, George Allen [Harry Truman's ex-White House jester] bet me $100 I'd be nominated. Six months ago [the New York Times's Arthur Krock bet me $10 I'd be nominated and accept the nomination. Don't let me forget to collect on those guys...
...confused with ex-White House Jester George Edward Allen...
...language with a clarity and wit unrivaled since Swift; Shaw is also a profound thinker whose "pose of arrogance was a deliberate strategy in an utterly altruistic struggle" to irritate men into thought. But the "utterly altruistic struggle" failed, and there was Shaw's tragedy: he, the court jester, was idolized, his plays were adored, but his opinions were either ridiculed or thinned into insignificance. As Shaw wisecracked: "Not taking me seriously is the Englishman's way of refusing to face facts...