Word: lyndon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...choppers on an East Texas farm dropped their hoes and hightailed it for the piney woods. One of those crazy flying machines that stand still in the air was right on top of them. But they stopped dead when the thing yelled at them: "Hello, down there. This is Lyndon Johnson, candidate for the U.S. Senate, dropping in to say good morning...
...Long Lyndon Johnson, one of Texas' most ebullient Congressmen, had introduced the first new gimmick in Texas politics* since the hillbilly band and the free barbecue. Leapfrogging all over the state in his helicopter, he hoped to make a three-point landing in the seat which "Pappy" O'Daniel, the demagogue from Fort Worth, would vacate next January...
Died. George Lyndon Carpenter, 75, retired international General of the Salvation Army (1939-46); after an operation; in Sydney, Australia. He joined the Army at 19, rose through the ranks, served autocratic General Bramwell Booth as Literary Secretary for twelve years, until Booth demoted him in 1927 for being too candid in his advice. He became a Territorial Commissioner in 1933, succeeded Bramwell's famed sister, Evangeline, as General six years later...
...Vincennes, Ind., Mrs. Lyndon Eberly and her daughter, Helen, heard on the radio that Sergeant Richard Eberly, 21, had been one of the first to be landed by air in France. The Eberlys prayed. At 3:30 a.m. in Marietta, Ga., the bell of the Methodist Church began to peal; by 4, every church was lighted, and in every church the people prayed...
When the convention opened in the granite Senate chamber of the capitol at Austin last week, George Butler had the votes to crack the whip. Every speech, every motion the New Dealers made was drowned out in boos and catcalls. When handsome, New Dealing Representative Lyndon B. Johnson hovered near the platform to prompt pro-Roosevelt speakers, the Texans shouted, "Throw Roosevelt's pin-up boy out of there. Get that yes man off the platform...