Word: yarborough
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...summer long the eyes of Texas have been upon Governor Allan Shivers and his campaign for an unprecedented third term. His opponent in the Democratic primary. Attorney Ralph Yarborough of Austin, uncovered the embarrassing fact that Shivers had turned a $425,000 profit on a $25,000 investment in a strange Rio Grande Valley land deal eight years ago. Yarborough, who lost to Shivers in 1952 by a margin of almost 2 to 1, also kept reminding Texas Democrats that Shivers had swung Democratic Texas behind Dwight Eisenhower in the 1952 presidential election...
This week Texas political observers agreed, to their own surprise, that Yarborough has a chance to beat Shivers in the Democratic primary on July...
...late Earl of Yarborough, for whose family title the whist hand without honors was supposedly named...
Last week there were signs that Shivers, for the first time in his long political career, was in trouble. He found himself in the unusual position (for him) of defending his public and private record against the assaults of his opponent, an eager, 51-year-old lawyer named Ralph Yarborough, * who lost to Shivers in 1952 by more than 300,000 votes. Yarborough has made political hay with a deposition, recently made public, showing that Shivers made a profit of $425,000 on a Rio Grande Valley land deal within seven months in 1946 when he was a state senator...
...water rights? No." When Yarborough finished, the crowd cheered. Allan Shivers rose to explain: "It was a legitimate business deal; I have never found anything wrong with this great American system of profitmaking." As he sat down, the only applause came from Shivers' friends on the platform...