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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...
...Defensive. In Chicago, Shivers' cautious side came out. He could not forget that, back home, Ralph Yarborough, an independent Democratic lawyer from Austin, was putting on a vigorous campaign for the Democratic nomination for governor. The primary was to be held the Saturday after the convention. Shivers, uneasy about Yarborough, was afraid his delegation might be thrown out of the Chicago convention. As a result, in Chicago he took a defensive rather than an aggressive stand...