Word: samuels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week a jury, all but one of whom were parents, tried Louis Greenfield. Lawyer Samuel Leibowitz staged the defense, free of charge, but his renowned theatrical talents were scarcely needed. Euthanasia defendants are seldom convicted. Father Greenfield's story made the jurors sob. He said...
...maverick in the Southwest is a stray, unbranded calf; finders, keepers. The name comes from Samuel Augustus Maverick who landed in Matagorda, Tex. from South Carolina early in 1835 with a Yale education, $36,000 in gold and so much energy that when he died he left ten children and more land than almost anyone in the U. S. Only cattle he owned were 453 head, acquired for a debt, which he put on an island and forgot. When their unbranded offspring wandered ashore, cowmen would whoop, "There's a Maverick!" and rope...
...Samuel Augustus Maverick signed Texas' declaration of independence, fought in its war with Mexico, served in its Congresses, helped it join the Union. Just 100 years ago this month he was sworn in as second mayor of what is today the nation's southernmost big-little city, then the cow-town of San Antonio...
...legged Mavericks now abound in the Southwest and some of them still have the erect, patrician bearing of Samuel Augustus. But the only one whose name & fame are national is a startling, stubby exhibitionist with the appearance of an agitated bullfrog. He does not glory in his full name, Fontaine Maury-Maverick, but in his War record, his intellectual honesty and in the hell he raised for four years in Washington as first Representative from Texas' new 20th District. It was his boast that he never cast a sectional vote, that he out-dealt the New Dealers, that...
...fairly evenly. In the final roundup, Maury Maverick was found to have succeeded his grandfather by 18,445 votes to 15,441 for Quin, 11,172 for Jeffers. Grandson Maury promptly took a pre-oath of office administered by his father, Albert Maverick, 86, standing in front of Grandfather Samuel's portrait (see cut). In with Maverick to replace the Quin machine go three out of four city commissioners, including bulky Louis Lipscomb, Princeton 1923 footballer, as fire & police chief...