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Mutual's General Manager Fred Weber denounced this as an attempt to "coerce, influence or restrain the free choice of action" of Mutual's affiliates. Mutual President Wilbert E. Macfarlane pled lengthily for ratification, while ASCAP officials lurked hopefully near by. Neville Miller's pleas and the opposition of John Shepard III, bulky, argumentative president of New England's Yankee and Colonial networks whose stations pipe in many a big-chain program, deadlocked the voters...
...serve as Senator Morris Sheppard's successor until a new Senator can be elected, Texas' Governor Wilbert Lee ("Pass the Biscuits, Pappy") O'Daniel appointed crusty, crotchety Andrew Jackson Houston, 87, only living son of Texas' founder-hero, Sam Houston...
France's Henry IV, not a bad politician himself, put it neatly: "I wish that every peasant may have a chicken in his pot on Sundays." Governor Wilbert Lee ("Pass the Biscuits, Pappy") O'Daniel of Texas, campaigning for re-election last summer, went way beyond Henry. When he spoke at a crossroads, the melodious and hospitable Governor often wound up: "Come down to dinner at the Governor's mansion some time. . . ." Last week 25,000 Texans took him up on the invitation, trooped to Austin to a barbecue after his inaugural. The inaugural itself was simple...
Principal Crazy stockholder is thin-faced, black-eyed, ministerial Carr Pritchett Collins, chairman of the board and longtime crony of Texas' hillbilly Governor Wilbert Lee ("Pass the biscuits, Pappy") O'Daniel. With Brother Hal Houston Collins, president of Crazy, Stockholder Carr has a strong grip on Texas politics. Accredited with having helped start O'Daniel's Hillbilly Flour Co., Carr helped run the Governor's campaign, remains a close adviser, is sometimes called the power behind the throne. Glib Radiorator Hal plugs Crazy products and O'Daniel doctrine over company-sponsored broadcasts...
...station XERA at Villa Acufia; until recently Norman Baker who used 50,000-watt station XENT, near Nuevo Laredo until the U. S. Government convicted him for using the mails to de fraud ; the Rev. Sam Morris who daily lets fly on the evils of alcohol and Governor Wilbert Lee ("Pass the Biscuits, Pappy") O'Daniel of Texas, who use 100,000-watt station XEAW at Reynosa...