Sublime

All four counties in the 89th District wanted him to run again in 1908, for an unprecedented third term, but he decided not to do so. State jobs—better-paying than legislative seats—were available to many retiring legislators, as were jobs with the railroads and the oil companies and the banks, but Sam Johnson, who had refused to go along with the

“Clyde Waggoner. I’m Martin’s father.” The man from Okeechobee was wearing a white rayon tie with a blue chambray work shirt, and khaki trousers. There was a thin nylon Sears windbreaker folded over his left arm.

Locke parle des Irlandais, en révolte endémique et désespérée contre la spoliation et l’oppression exercées par les colons anglais, en termes méprisants, comme d’une population de « brigands118 ».

Johnson came to the use of money in elections very early. While he was still a congressional assistant, he sat in a San Antonio hotel room buying votes with five-dollar bills. An extravagant use of this lever characterized his own campaigns from the first: his initial race for Congress, in 1937, was one of the most expensive congressional campaigns

For reflection: 1 Samuel 15:17–23 Disobedience is not the way to get nearer to the obedient. —from a letter to Sheldon Vanauken, May 8, 1955

For Lewis, Bible reading was as natural to his daily routine as eating or sleeping.

August 1876, and Walker died two months later. He was seventy-seven years old. The cause of death, says Bil Gilbert, was nothing more or less than ‘having lived long enough’. How to distil that life into six lines, containing