Word: mccraw
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nazarene preacher named S. T. Brogdon, out to be Governor of Texas, closed his campaign for the Democratic nomination last week. So did State Attorney General William McCraw of Dallas, Railroad Commissioner Ernest O. Thompson of Amarillo, Oilman Tom F. Hunter of Wichita Falls, seasoned campaigners all. And so, to the grief of all these gentlemen, did Flour Salesman Wilbert Lee O'Daniel of Fort Worth (TIME, July 25). At Kilgore, on the night before primary day, Candidate O'Daniel struck up his hillbilly band, introduced Children Pat, Molly & Mike, who sang "Please Pass the Biscuits, Pappy," declaimed...
Texas' biggest political news of the week was. however, the race to succeed Mr. Allred as Governor. In a field of twelve for the Democratic nomination (virtual election), leading contestants until last month were Attorney General William ("Bill") McCraw and redheaded Railroad Commissioner Ernest Othmer ("Red Colonel") Thompson. Then into the race stepped Wilbert Lee O'Daniel, of Fort Worth, a radio character well-known to Texans, for years a flour salesman, later a miller...
Death & Taxes, No matter what State gets Colonel Green as a resident by Surrogate Owen's ruling, the U. S. Supreme Court will be the court to settle once & for all the question of domicile for tax billing purposes. The tax schedule which Texas' Attorney General William McCraw filed with the Supreme Court placed the gross value of Colonel Green's estate at $44,384,500. This may be as much as $50,000,000 short of the final figure, for as yet nobody knows exactly how much Hetty Green's big cub did leave. According...