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...changed his mind about Ike's candidacy, would stick by the promise he had made three months ago to support Eisenhower if he decided to run on the Republican ticket. A more surprising evidence of Ike's political appeal came from Louisiana's cigar-chomping Judge Leander Perez, national director of the States' Rights' (Dixiecrats) Committee. Perez told reporters that the Dixiecrats did not intend to put up their own presidential ticket in 1952, but said that Ike would have Dixiecrat support and "undoubtedly carry many Southern states if he ran," whether as a Republican...
Hebert, a Dixiecrat, a foe of the President and a crony of Louisiana's dictatorial Political Boss Leander Perez, had asked the President to proclaim a day of prayer for "guidance and wisdom." The President thanked him politely for the suggestion, but rejected it on the grounds that his Thanksgiving proclamation had already accomplished Hebert's aim. Then, in a more acrid tone, Harry Truman added...
Like many another country doctor, Dr. Leander C. Bryan of Rutledge, Tenn. (pop. 518) had fumed & fussed for years over poor telephone service. Things came to a head in 1936 when the dilapidated telephone system was threatened with a complete shutdown. Nobody else wanted to buy the decrepit concern, with only 36 subscribers, so Dr. Bryan took it over himself for $600 in order to keep in touch with his widely scattered patients...
...crew got off to a slow start, but never had to raise the beat too high. The coxswain simply called for a "big ten" (increasing the effort, but not the beat, for ten strokes) and Cal smoothly spurted into the lead. California won easily over Great Britain's Leander Boat Club and Norway's Fana Row Club...
Died. Mrs. Jacob Leander Loose, 85, Kansas City dowager who set out when she was past 60 to shower Washington society with champagne and Sunshine biscuits, eventually decided she had "gone pretty far for a baker's widow" [Loose-Wiles Biscuit Co.]; after long illness; in Kansas City...