Word: stevensons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Asked what he had to say about the quarrel (the Regents were appointed by him and his predecessor), Governor Coke Stevenson announced, "I do not think it would be proper to express my views on Friday the 13th...
Dowson was reared in the quaint, foggy, family home that stood on one of the wings of the family drydock in east London's Limehouse. Tuberculous Father Alfred Dowson was far more interested in talking with his friends, Algernon Swinburne and Robert Louis Stevenson, than in keeping "Dowson's" shipshape. Mother Annie Dowson, who was also tuberculous, nursed her lungs in retiring despondency. In winter the sickly parents took their sickly child to the Riviera. There he learned the classical Latin line that framed his work ever afterward, and discovered French literature and the way of life that...
...Texas Way. Governor Stevenson entered the President's office at11 a.m. He had a minutely worked out compromise, designed to offend nobody. He outlined it persuasively to the President. Why not have two sets of Democratic electors listed on the Texas ballot-one pro-Roosevelt, one anti-Roosevelt? An hour later the Governor emerged smiling from the White House and told Jesse Jones and Harry Truman, who were waiting to drive him to the Capitol, that the President had agreed...
...White House switchboard began to buzz with incoming calls. But the President did not answer. Muttered one top New Dealer: "Now we're in one hell of a fix. Roosevelt, by God, has only himself to blame." Finally word went to Texas' New Dealers: Never mind the Stevenson plan; fight for control of the Dallas convention...
...Coke Stevenson, back in Austin, had established himself as a reasonable peacemaker. He did not seem much worried over the coming struggle for control of the Party in Texas. Had he enjoyed his trip? Yes-all but the Washington newsmen, some of whom were downright "unscrupulous." One had even asked Coke Stevenson, to his face, if he intended to vote the Roosevelt-Truman ticket. The Governor had just ignored...