Word: manns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Texas' youthful Attorney General Gerald Mann announced last week: "If I remain in public life, it will be as Governor of Texas...
Enthusiastic, rumple-haired Jerry Mann first entered Texas public life as star quarterback of Southern Methodist University's 1927 football team, when he was known as "Little Red Arrow." To be Governor, he must unseat incumbent Coke Stevenson, a goat-raising, small-town banker. Governor Stevenson has managed the State pretty well, keeping popular by sniping constantly at New Deal "bureaucracy" but not at Franklin Roosevelt. Stevenson's popularity was highest when he concentrated on gas rationing, which irks Texans living in sight of gushing oil wells...
...Jerry Mann's quarterback strategy will be all out for Franklin Roosevelt, Administration and all. Texas Democrats in 1944 thus may have a clear-cut chance to endorse or rebuff the national Administration...
Lynch won his first match by default, then beat John Allen 5-7, 6-2, 6-4; G. C. Fuller 6-0, 6-0; Jack Fried 6-2, 6-0; and Thomas Mann 6-1, 6-0. He received a Red Cross certificate for his victories...
Backward, Turn Backward. In San Francisco, a pedestrian stopped by Police Inspector George Page explained why he was walking backward: "I like to read the expressions on the faces of the people who are following me." Subject for Study. In Hackensack, N.J., county jailers greeted Rose Mann, charged with assault & battery, studied her 360 pounds, studied their cell doors, arranged for her release without bail...