Word: stevensons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...night last week the telephone jangled in the big colonial Governor's mansion on the hilltop at Austin, Tex. The White House was calling Governor Stevenson. This was a rare occasion. Tall, leathery Coke Stevenson is no ardent New Dealer...
...Coke Stevenson hastily stuffed his briefcase full of facts & figures on Texas industries and boarded a Washington plane. Air travel was a new experience to the drawling, pipe-smoking Governor, but politics was an old, familiar game. He well knew that the President had something much more pressing than industrial data to discuss: Texas' 23 electoral votes...
...Martha Stevenson Kemp Mature, blond ex-wife of Swingster Hal Kemp and Victor ("Beautiful Hunk") Mature, arrived in Manhattan from Palm Beach with a bump on her head. According to the New York Journal-American's society page, she had been jarred awake in her sleeping car, sat upright, "rapped her lovely sconce" on the upper berth...
...bitterness and hatred which their attitude spread below the border. But when wartime labor shortage threatened their crops last year (and Mexican President Manuel Avila Camacho let it be known that they would get no help from Mexico), they took belated notice. In a broad-brimmed sombrero Governor Coke Stevenson made a tour of Mexico, spreading buttery words, sparring with Mexican newsmen. On his return he organized the Texas Good Neighbor Commission to soften Texas prejudice...
Through the quiet years Secretary Stevenson had faithfully stuck to her job. Not until last week did she take a new one: in a private ceremony at the register's office in Guildford, David Lloyd George and Frances Stevenson were married...