Word: sol
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Victim of the same sympathetic fallacy is Empire (NBC), the story of a great King, as in Texas' huge King ranch. Since it is a kidnaped stepson of Giant, it might have been written by somebody called Billie Sol Ferber, who proves that the West ain't what it was. One ranch hand punches another, and the punched man looks up and says feelingly: "I'm sorry for all your suffering...
...point: one of the ways in which the Administration got deeply involved in the Billie Sol Estes scandal was by tossing its grain storage contracts around in willy-nilly fashion. But as a Kansas political issue, Breeding has the best of it. After all, there are a lot more wheat growers than wheat storers. And in elections, numbers count...
...Billie Sol Estes scandal last week claimed its first elective victim. It was, ironically, a Republican and an old foe of Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman...
...Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, Freeman tried for years to unseat stocky, moonfaced H. Carl Andersen as U.S. Representative from the rural Seventh Congressional District. But Andersen, a conservative on nearly all issues but high farm supports, seemed unbeatable; he was elected twelve times. Then, last January, along came Billie Sol...
Steadily and stolidly, Murphy defended himself. Yes, he agreed, he had been responsible for the Estes decisions. But he had merely been trying to be fair; after all, any U.S. citizen is presumed innocent until proven guilty. Yes, he had at one time canceled Billie Sol's cotton-allotment transactions. But then, after urgings from Texas' Democratic Senator Ralph Yarborough and Representative J. T. Rutherford, Murphy suspended the cancellation in order to reconsider the legal merits of the tangled affair. Why? Well, there was the possibility that Estes may have only made an "honest mistake." This explanation...