Word: overton
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year Earl-who had been patiently raising cattle in Winn Parish and mending political fences-set boldly out to get the governorship again. He talked an oil millionaire named William C. Feazel into backing him. (After election he sent Feazel to the Senate to fill the late Senator John Overton's unexpired term, made Feazel's attorney, Seaborn L. Digby, chairman of the Conservation Commission, which decides how much oil may be pumped from wells...
Three days after the inauguration, Louisiana's 72-year-old Senator John H. Overton-who had refused to back Earl in the election-died in Bethesda Naval Hospital. His vacant Senate seat gave the Longs an easy and unexpected means of strengthening their political hold on Louisiana. Governor Earl prepared to appoint a friend-probably a Monroe oil millionaire named William C. Feazel-on condition that the appointee would not run for the office after the interim term expired. In November, having achieved the Senate's 30-year minimum age, Nephew Russell would run, with every chance...
Died. John Holmes Overton, 72, U.S. Senator from Louisiana since 1933, creature of the late Huey Long, but no fellow traveler of Huey's brother, Earl, the new governor of Louisiana ; after an abdominal operation; in Bethesda, Md. Senator Overton distinguished himself chiefly by plugging ceaselessly for flood control and against daylight saving time...
Louisiana's roly-poly John Overton objected: a sudden time jag would cause him to miss his favorite radio commentator (Lowell Thomas), and foul up the delivery schedule of his milkman...
...President," said Overton, huskily, "it seems to me that we should pursue the course that the God of Nature has prescribed. ... But here come the members of the Senate Committee on the District of Columbia, and like Joshua of old, they want to bid the sun and the moon to stand still. ... If the bill passes ... I will be tempted to insert in the Washington newspapers an advertisement-'Lost, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, one golden hour, set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward offered-it is lost forever...