Word: stevensons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Enthusiastic, rumple-haired Jerry Mann first entered Texas public life as star quarterback of Southern Methodist University's 1927 football team, when he was known as "Little Red Arrow." To be Governor, he must unseat incumbent Coke Stevenson, a goat-raising, small-town banker. Governor Stevenson has managed the State pretty well, keeping popular by sniping constantly at New Deal "bureaucracy" but not at Franklin Roosevelt. Stevenson's popularity was highest when he concentrated on gas rationing, which irks Texans living in sight of gushing oil wells...
...when David Lloyd George was Chancellor of the Exchequer and the coming man of British politics, his young daughters came home for a holiday and brought along their favorite schoolteacher, Miss Frances Louise Stevenson. The entire family was charmed with the 23-year-old girl, thought her a paragon of intelligence, efficiency and wholesome good looks...
...years later Lloyd George needed a private secretary. Miss Stevenson accepted the job, for the next 30 years never held another. She worked with her boss during his great days as wartime Prime Minister, accompanied him to the Peace Conference. Other Allied statesmen gallantly dubbed her "the blonde bewilderment" and could not understand why such an attractive young woman would choose the silent, self-effacing role of a secretary...
Erudite Dr. Oscar Stevenson, professor of penal law at the University of Brazil, proposed last week at Rio de Janeiro that war guilt be pinned on: 1) government leaders; 2) military executives; 3) ministers; 4) sovereigns-not on the common people of aggressor nations. In a resolution referred to a committee of the Inter-American Bar Association for further study, he urged that war criminals be tried by civilian-military courts of their fellow countrymen...
Preacher's Son. Tall (6 ft. 1 in.), smooth Bill Stevenson, 42, onetime Princeton track star, is a descendant of Jonathan Edwards, the New England preacher. His grandfather was a minister; his father, the late J. Ross Stevenson, was president of Princeton Theological Seminary. His twin brothers are missionaries; one is a prisoner of the Japs in Manila. Bill was graduated from Princeton in 1922, won a Rhodes Scholarship to Balliol College, Oxford, ran on the U.S. Olympic team which set a mile record in Paris in 1924. He and Bumpy lived with their two daughters in a remodeled...