Word: tex
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stevenson based his charge on a "report" from an unidentified friend and a column by United Feature Syndicate's pro-Stevenson Doris Fleeson. Columnist Fleeson wrote that Radio-TV Personality John R. (Tex) McCrary, an Eisenhower booster in 1952, had "boasted" about G.O.P. fund-raising for Estes Kefauver. In Manhattan Tex McCrary explained that he had merely commented at a private dinner: "I hear some Republicans helped Kefauver in Minnesota." Tut-tutted Kefauver: "Mr. Stevenson, of course, knows nothing of any Republican money. Apparently he is building up alibi...
...West Point two weeks ago, the Council this year sponsored three spring vacation tours. For the first time, the tours produced a profit for the Council treasury, as opponents paid $20 each to debate Harvard on "any topic and any side" they chose. One trip went to Houston, Tex., a second to the plain states, and a third to Minnesota...
Through the clink and tinkle of the bottles and glasses at the bar the jukebox blasted Tex Ritter's unctuous boom...
WASHINGTON, Feb. 24--Senate leaders announced plans today to reform the election laws in advance of the presidential and congressional campaigns this year. Majority Leader Johnson (D-Tex.) said one aim of the legislation is to put political contributions "in a goldfish bowl," for all the voters...
...automakers, the recent cutbacks did not prevent them from turning out their 1,000,000th new motor vehicle of 1956 this week, only three days behind the 1955 pace. At Chrysler President Lester Lum ("Tex") Colbert announced that in Chrysler's 1955 comeback net sales totaled $3.5 billion, 67% better than 1954, with earnings of $100 million, more than 400% better than 1954. Said Colbert: "1956 will be highly competitive, but we believe it will be a good market...