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...baseball experiences of the 25-year-old Florence, S. C. boy are also reminiscent of a scenario. Fresh out of Columbia Law School and Cumberland University, where he was a three letter man, Jordan signed a contract with the Philadelphia A's and was shipped off to Texarkana in the East Texas League, for the season...
...having a great year in which he was to end up leading the league in homers, with 33, and finishing second in doubles and runs-batted-in. Bubber Jonnard of the Giants was sent down to scout him, and s Jonnard sat in the stands unknown to Jordan, the Texarkana star walloped a double, triple, and homer. As he rounded the bases on his four-master, Jonnard bolted out of the Texarkana clubhouse and signed him for the trip to Cubs...
...Congress Cordell Hull proclaimed: "I am glad to say there is now in Moscow a highly competent U.S. Military Mission headed by Major General John R. Deane, [former secretary to the U.S. members of the Combined Chiefs of Staff]." Faymonville's job last week: temporary duty at the Texarkana Ordnance Center...
Salesman Sellman. In Texarkana, Ark., Messenger Billy Sellman waved his way with a telegram through a crowd blocking the entrance to a shoe store, handed the owner a message: "Please, sir, I would like to get a new pair of shoes, [signed] Billy Sellman...
...Morris Sheppard's death stampeded Texas' political cattle. As Senator Sheppard's casket went quietly down Texarkana's State Line Avenue to the little cemetery last week, Red-Hunter Martin Dies, Attorney General Gerald C. Mann, a horde of shorthorns were hot after the seat. Texas' House of Representatives petitioned Governor W. Lee ("Pass-The-Biscuits-Pappy") O'Daniel to appoint himself for the 90-day interim before an election must be held. Pappy held his peace, and pondered. Morris Sheppard was buried. The little people of Texas, the Anti-Saloon League of America...