Word: jims
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Jim's Past. In 1916 during his second term as governor, Jim Ferguson was careless enough to get impeached by letting it seem as though he may have used state funds and a "loan" from brewers to save a bank of his from collapsing. Though deprived of civic eligibility, he thumbed his nose and ran again in 1918 anyway. He even ran for President in 1920, getting 100,000 votes. Two years ago he conceived and executed his brilliant scheme of having his wife elected Governess on an Anti-Klan plank. An amnesty bill was ram med through...
...Jim's Talk. The essence of Fergusonism is good, vigorous home-and-family blather, the kind of thing a contented Americano is supposed to shout in at the wife while he is shaving in the bathroom and she is trying to sneak in another snooze. Jim can talk to Fundamentalists or Evolutionists with equal equanimity in his hearty, informal...
Thus, to Fundamentalists: "These Evolutionists are monkey-faced Baptists and they are worse than an archists or the Ku Klux Klan." (Antiphony: "Amen, Brother Jim...
...Jim's Issues. Young Dan Moody, Jim pointed out, had no overseas record. His girl changed her mind after the War and married a returned hero. That showed you what a slacker Dan Moody was. And now (last April) Dan had married some one else. What the voters of Texas ought to know was just what part this new Mrs. Moody was going to play in the state if Dan were elected. Would it be a "Jiggs and Maggie" proposition? Jim made that sound like a question almost as serious as the Ku Kluxers, fondness for whom he ascribed...
...Jim found another issue in "this Bureau of Maternal Hygiene"-an innovation by some precocious Texans who had been reading books. "It is supposed to teach Texas mothers how to have babies," bawled Jim, "in spite of the fact that the mothers of this state have made a success of having babies for over 100 years...