Word: owen
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Miriam ("Ma") Ferguson was elected Governor of Texas in 1924, succeeding her husband, who was impeached and therefore ineligible for reelection. During the first of her two terms, she freed 3.600 convicts from the state penitentiary. In the early days of the New Deal, Florida's Ruth Bryan Owen, daughter of William Jennings Bryan, served in Congress, later became Franklin Roosevelt's Minister to Denmark, the first woman to head a foreign mission. The doughty Frances Perkins became F.D.R.'s Secretary of Labor-the first woman Cabinet member. Mary Teresa Norton went to Congress on the insistence...
...Western horizon, two attractive candidates for office are being watched with interest: Rudd Smith, 40, the slim brunette daughter of Ruth Bryan Owen, who is campaigning for California's 21st District seat, a sprawling area that embraces half of Los Angeles and several bedroom valleys; and Maurine Brown Neuberger, 52, widow of Oregon's Dick Neuberger and a political virtuoso in her own right (three terms in the state legislature). In her campaign to succeed her husband in the Senate, Maurine is raising the political dust. Laments her opponent, former Republican Governor Elmo Smith: "I am running against...
Shanks's unofficial dealings with Georgia-Pacific began one day last year when he and G.P. Chairman Owen Cheatham, 57-also a Prudential director-were chatting about tax savings. "I was looking for a deal where I could make a good capital gain." says Shanks, "because I take such a plastering from taxes on my $250,000 salary." Cheatham thought he might have just the thing: buying timber holdings and then selling the timber to Georgia-Pacific. Shanks's lawyers assured him that there would be no conflict of interest. In May, Shanks met with officials of Georgia...
...Reinhardt plays Hotspur at too high a pitch, Impetuosity, excitement, and vigor would suffice but he gives us an overwrought, almost frantic, interpretation that lacks all subtlety. Hotspur's ineptness was matched by Franklin Cover's Owen Glendower. The splendid and famous interchange between the two--"I can call spirits from the vasty deep." "Why, so can I, or so can any man;/But will they come when you do call for them?"--has no life and no wit, save what is in the lines. Reinhardt as Pistol in the second part shows greater understanding of his role, and provides...
Handel: Acis & Galatea (Joan Sutherland, Peter Pears, Owen Brannigan, David Galliver; Philomusica of London with the St. Anthony Singers, conducted by Sir Adrian Boult; London). A slightly cut version of the masque that became the most popular of Handel's works in his own lifetime. The score is fresh and frothy, the choral numbers a wonder of vocal crosshatching, and the performance controlled and clear. Soprano Sutherland trills her lines with transparent ease...