Word: texan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...addition to Texan Daniel, five Democrats claimed their sure seats: the five: Mississippi's John. C., Stennis, Florida's Spessard L. Holland, Virginia's Harry Byrd, Rhode Island's John O. Pastore, all incumbents, and Representative Albert Gore...
Texas from other states. This influx of young couples and their children, plus the population growth encountered with an expanding economy, is creating an acute shortage of school buildings and teachers . . . Any Texan who values the welfare of his children should vote for Dwight Eisenhower...
...Every Texan is a walking Chamber of Commerce, and there is absolutely nothing to boast about...
...regarded city symphony orchestras and a housewife who recently ordered a bracelet bangle designed to look like a kitchen sink with diamonds dripping from the faucet. It has the Cullen Foundation, which has set aside $160 million worth of oil properties to endow medical, educational and charitable institutions. One Texan has a million-dollar-a-week income, and so many others have so much less that the per-capita income of Texans is slightly less than the national average. The rags-to-riches story is so standard that one Texan, who inherited a fortune from his grandmother in Boston, tries...
Shivers makes certain concessions (such as the Mercury in Ford clothing) to what his constituents expect of a Texas governor, but he is not the type known to the rest of the country as the professional Texan. His hats are apt to be more nearly five-gallon than ten, his drawl is under control, and his public manner is more earnest than hearty. He can even kid the Texas myth a little. In a recent radio interview with Bob Crosby, he said: "I'd like to say something serious now, something I want all the world to know...