Word: lyndon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...powerful High Council in London for the topmost army job: general of the International. It was a signal honor to be in the line of succession from William Booth to son Bramwell Booth,* to Edward John Higgins, to Bramwell's firebrand sister Evangeline,† to Australian-born George Lyndon Carpenter. But Pugmire turned it down; his heart, strained by years of work, travel and dedication, was not up to the job, which went to Albert W. T. Orsborn, son-in-law of the late General Higgins. Pugmire became commissioner of the U.S. Vested with more authority than any other...
...Lufkin, Texas (pop. 22,500), one cold night last week, 900 citizens jammed into the high-school gymnasium. There, over a $6 roast beef dinner, they listened to some famed Texans (including U.S. Senators Tom Connally and Lyndon Johnson) praise a fellow Texan in terms extravagant even for the Lone Star State. Said ex-Governor William P. Hobby: "He is the kingfish of free enterprise." Added Governor Allan Shivers: "He is Mister East Texas...
Begge, John William, Crocker, William Tufts, Flagg, Washington Allston. Jr., Holden, William Hall, House, Theodore Grant, Mitchell, William Foster, Morgan, John Casimir, Jr., Watkins, Ernest Lyndon, Ferguson, Oliver Drayton (Manager...
...Lyndon College...
...Lyndon Teachers' College, a state teachers' college in Vermont, the dean of the college, Luther Macnair, resigned his position in March, 1948. Macnair, then vice-chairman of the state Progressive Party, stated that he was under considerable pressure from various sources, including Burlington newspapers, at the time of his resignation...