Word: texan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...great statesman, but he knew a lot about the fine art of being a little Senator. He kept a little black book of his daily attendance record in Congress. The average was less than a day's absence per year, for 38 years. Any Texan could ask him to do anything and be sure he would try. He was a "typewriter Senator," answering every scrap of mail faithfully, always regarding himself as the errand boy of a great State...
...past eleven years Earl Browder had been general secretary (titular head) of the Communist Party in the U. S. Picked by the Party hierarchy to fill his uncomfortable shoes was another native-born U. S. citizen, an old-fashioned radical, 56-year-old Robert Minor. A Texan, a carpenter in his early days, Communist Minor has had a long career of Bolshevik activity. As a young man he took up cartooning and landed a job on the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. In 1916 he became publicity director for the defense of Tom Mooney. When the U. S. entered World...
...Antonio Rose was evidence of a new factor in the U. S. song business. It was written by Texan Bob Wills, and recorded a year ago (in Columbia's hillbilly catalogue) by Wills and his Texas Playboys. It was a seller long before Tin Pan Alley heard it. For Texas has boomed mightily as a source and an outlet for popular music. The late guitar-toting Jimmie Rodgers, onetime brakeman on the Southern Railway, helped start the boom, on Victor hillbilly records a dozen years ago. Now Victor's Bill Boyd, Columbia's Gene Autry, Bob Wills...
Currently many a Texan sings of national defense. On a single Southwest juke box may be found I'm Lending You to Uncle Sam (sung by Bonnie Blue Eyes), Oh! They're Makin' Me All Over in the Army (Dick Robertson). Tall, slow-talking Red River Dave (Dave McEnery), who has written 200 songs, lately got off I'd Rather Fight for My Country Than Fight With a Wife...
...Frank Dobie, who put the honor and the data together, is as Texan as the steers he celebrates. An anti-industrialist and individualist, he once went to jail rather than pay a $2 fine for violation of what he considered an unreasonable parking regulation. He likes to be called Pancho (or even Don Pancho), sports a white Stetson and a buckskin watch fob. His father and grandfather before him were vaqueros of the south Texas brush country; in that country Dobie was born, 52 years ago. He spent his first 15 years in a ranch boy's intimacy with...