Word: manns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nobody expected the lesser candidates to win. But nobody knew how many votes they would take from the big four of O'Daniel, Mann, Johnson, Dies, or from whom they would take most. Some of the minor meteors...
...eats two Communists for breakfast every morning, was running a surprisingly colorless campaign. Lyndon Johnson, 32, the New Deal's candidate, suffered the awful fate of Wendell Willkie-his voice gave out just as he began a whirlwind speaking tour. If anybody looked strong it was Gerald Mann, 34, Attorney General, who still carries about his eyes a mass of scar tissue from the days when he was a football hero at Southern Methodist University, the first great All-American and forward passer from the Southwest...
...Gerald Mann doesn't cuss, doesn't drink, is slight, quick, deep-eyed, and keeps his weight down to his quarterback...
...William Shakespeare's birthday (April 23), the BBC broadcast to Germany records of swing versions of his lyrics, It Was a Lover and His Lass, Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind, 0 Mistress Mine, sung by Marion Mann accompanied by Bob Crosby's Bob Cats. Wrote London's Daily Telegraph: "The seemliness of presenting such versions of Shakespeare from his own land and on his own day to a people who have never concealed their respect for his genius is to be raised in Parliament...
...asked his listeners to pray, then send him their advice on what he should do. Meanwhile, from his farm in Jasper County, Tex., Representative Martin Dies, 39, a mighty campaigner in his own country, announced that he would run for the Senate. So did sharp, energetic, able Gerald Mann, 34, the Attorney General, an ex-preacher and star quarterback from Southern Methodist University...