Word: texans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pushing his bulldozer down from the north, saw trees falling toward him. Over the fallen trees from the south Private Alfred Jalufka of Texas clawed and jerked his own bulldozer. The highway crews at last had met-20 miles east of the Alaska-Yukon border. The Negro and the Texan leaped from their machines and shook hands. The seven-month job was almost done. Then they backed their bulldozers and began widening the trail they had opened...
...truth" about Alaska. They were going too fast to see much, if anything, but reporters said they apparently were having a good time en route. Back from Alaska came two fighting Congressmen and Artemus L. ("Di") Gates, Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Air. One was a mum-mouthed Texan, Lyndon Johnson, recently returned from the South Pacific, where he was one of the President's observers with General MacArthur. The other, Warren Magnuson of Washington, talked a little. His conclusions: "The war situation in Alaska is serious but not alarming. . . . The military plan is to pulverize Kiska...
William Lockhart Clayton, 62, was famed in his own right as the biggest U.S. cotton merchant. Now, working in fellow Texan Jesse Jones's RFC, he is seldom heard of, never quoted, almost never seen outside his office. But through his big, able hands pass all the multi-zeroed dealings of Defense Supplies Corp., which trades vital loans for Latin American raw materials, and other jobs...
Many a rural Texan firmly believes that W. Lee ("Pappy") O'Daniel, the crooning flour peddler, is the plain man's answer to "professional politicians." The plain people of Texas twice elected him Governor, then sent him to the Senate. But this week, as Pappy sought to succeed himself in Texas' primary, he discovered that ignorance may not be as highly regarded by the voters as it once...
...Daniel, usually a shrewd appraiser of political psychology, made an appalling error in judgment. To Texans, who are fighting-proud of their fighting sons, he said: "I ain't worried about the war. That's Roosevelt's job." Allred and Moody will not let Texas forget this un-Texan remark-or Pappy's votes against neutrality repeal and draft extension...