Word: texan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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People who still think of W. Lee O'Daniel as "Pass the Biscuits, Pappy" are way behind the times. Direct, unpredictable, religious, forever outsmarting the politicos by his simplicity, the Governor of Texas has become the State's most popular officeholder. He is passionately Texan as only a true-born Midwesterner can be (Ohio was his birthplace). When his hillbilly band sings Beautiful Texas, the song he wrote himself, crowds hear a note of unsophisticated faith that nobody else gives them...
Texas newspapers, businessmen and the legislature have fought the Governor from the start. But the typical Texan attitude is that 1) the Governor is a well-meaning man who does not understand government, and 2) that is a good thing. Since he has been deadlocked with the legislature for two and a half years, with neither able to do much, Texans say the State has forged steadily ahead. When Senator Sheppard died last month, legislators thought they saw a golden opportunity to get rid of the Governor. They unanimously urged him to resign, have his Lieutenant Governor appoint him Senator...
...salute the heroes of Texas in song & story. On his way to memorial services at the battlefield he stopped at a shacklike house near Houston. There dwelt General Andrew Jackson Houston, 87, only surviving son of Sam Houston, the Raven, the hero of San Jacinto and the greatest Texan of them all. The old man, who paints, writes history, and fusses with people about his father, talked for ten minutes with the Governor. Then O'Daniel loitered for an hour in a filling station near by, got to the battlefield four minutes before he was scheduled to speak...
...other Derby eligibles were entered, just to make a race of it: Valdina Paul and Valdina Groom, two of Texan Emerson Woodward's herd, all named Valdina Something-or-other, that have invaded U.S. tracks this year. But from the flag's fall it was a two-horse race. Our Boots was ridden by little Conn McCreary, who is so small he looks like a pussycat on a horse. Puss McCreary acted like a wise old cat. Leading from the start, he eased Our Boots in the backstretch, let Whirlaway get in front. Then, rounding the home turn...
...promptly made Our Boots an 8-to-5 favorite. Quoted at 4-to-1 were Whirlaway and Charles S. Howard's Porter's Cap (son of The Porter and The Blonde), who ran away with the rich Santa Anita Derby last February. At 8-to-1 were Texan Robert Kleberg's Dispose, big horse of Florida's winter season, and J. Frederick Byers' Robert Morris, a 200-to-1 shot in the winter books-before he outran half a dozen older horses in the Excelsior Handicap at Jamaica last fortnight...