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Enthusiastic, rumple-haired Jerry Mann first entered Texas public life as star quarterback of Southern Methodist University's 1927 football team, when he was known as "Little Red Arrow." To be Governor, he must unseat incumbent Coke Stevenson, a goat-raising, small-town banker. Governor Stevenson has managed the State pretty well, keeping popular by sniping constantly at New Deal "bureaucracy" but not at Franklin Roosevelt. Stevenson's popularity was highest when he concentrated on gas rationing, which irks Texans living in sight of gushing oil wells...
...after the next"may be Spain's Francisco Franco. Spain's political exiles, down the long list of factions from Monarchists to Communists, last week made plans on the hope that the decline of Hitler and the fall of Mussolini would pave the way for them to unseat Franco...
...papers virtually ignored Regent Nicholas Horthy's recent conference with Hitler. Kallay further angered the Germans by dealing with the long-dormant but now reviving Social Democrats, and a new Socialist Peasant party. But paid pro-Germans are still strong in Hungary's Parliament: they tried to unseat Kallay a fortnight ago, succeeded in having Parliament adjourned...
...congratulatory telegrams (from a tobacco company in Virginia an order for 3,000 copies, reminiscent of the fantastic demand, totaling hundreds of thousands, for reprints of his Readers' Digest article of February titled "Your Stake in Capitalism"). On the West Coast, politicos predict that Johnston in 1944 may unseat Senator Homer Bone of Washington. With a reputation established for driving a middle road between business and Government, Johnston is already political material...
George Norris was speaking from a desk piled high with letters, telegrams which said what a crying shame it was that Nebraska had seen fit to unseat Independent Norris, elect instead genial, energetic Kenneth Wherry, 50, an anti-New Deal Republican ("but no obstructionist...