Word: texans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...again, the Texan is holding his colleagues up for another $100,000. This time it should be refused. What has he accomplished in four years with nearly a million dollars in public funds behind him? Certainly he never informed the country about Japanese espionage, and it was a mere two months after Pearl Harbor that he started preparing a "Yellow Paper." The damage was done, but Martin, in a confidential way, wanted to tell us that the Japs were a menace. Did he ever question Coughlin about his well-organized attempt to stir up racial hatred and internal dissension --undoubtedly...
...pilots from the carrier took on twelve Jap fighters. One of the pilots, a tall and curlyheaded Texan, shot down two Japs. His companion got another, collided with and destroyed a second, then returned safely to the carrier in his damaged plane...
Senator Tom Connolly gave more than a half pint of his blood to the Red Cross. The 64-year-old Texan was the first member of Congress to become a donor...
...hand is a Federal body set up to allot radio frequencies and license stations in the public interest. Through its licensing power it theoretically holds the whip hand over every one of the country's 890-odd stations. At its head is a tall, unreconstructed Texan, an oldtime anti-trust lawyer and regionalist who was once general counsel...
...Luzon. Strategists have long recognized that in a pinch Mindanao might have to be abandoned to the Jap-who would still be far from his objective, with no solid land bridge to the north. Davao's defenders were a comparatively small force headed by a 51-year-old Texan, Lieut. Colonel Roger Hilsman...