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knows what airmail does these days.
Am leaving on 2 :30 train this afternoon for Dallas. F..s.ve
called Bill Clark to ask him if I could see him sometime tomorrow
morning and of course he responded with an invitation to stay at
their house and said he
- for an hour each day.
Since Bill indicated that he Nould take something else, Escoe has
prepared four other suggestions and mailed them to him last night.
Escoe was going to Dallas this morning to see him. Since I
wanted to go to Dallas myself to see 1:rr
- . • Seenie Dr1••
Au• 1.n. 'fe:xu
Sunday 4 p.m.,
De
pril 4, 1943
reat loTe:
Saturlay morning I went by to ae• it ·••Johnson•••
home yet but ahe wa•a'i. Then Saturiay night she e 11•4 ae
••haY1n1 Ju•1
r1Tet-to aay that there were a oupl ot
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I.t you ob~eot, let me k.no • oth rwise I sh 11 write
lilm. An1 old uncl 1 ed r
orda of no u e to ue I sh ll give to Reed's
b cau ., thy ar nice to us and thy need them for eor p, else the1
oan' t g t new record •
Jam1e oalle. Scurry today. was told
- Press; Homer
Williams of the Postal Clerk (about you); and Mr. Buckner
of the San Marcos Record. Today I see I have the fo~lowing
to write: Mrs. Dale of the J3J..a.nco_Oounty News; Mrs. Glidden of the Johnson City Courier; and Leslie Cooper ot the
San
- was all 1.in and they were going to New
York over the week-end for a vacation\ (She was really glad I
_.!..n --, ~
took notice of her to ask her though, and I'm very glad I got
~ --'
that off.) So I actually took Mrs. Arthur Carter, who has moved
up here
- be going to
dinner or meeting him anywhere o
not going to New
York this· week-end and that I
. t want him to call me with
any plans to -~!£1f!ie a meet·
hink he knew it all ahead
of time and was n~ surprised
waa very full of gh.arming
compliments, whioh
- - /, \
mand being approved end he said he had--so I will forbear. \A
~
I
1(rY.
.,,.
I called Kate Foley as soon as your letter came.
Mrs. Forrestal is at Doctors' Hospital, East End Avenue at
87th Street, New York City, N. Y. She has been there for ~, 1 -H
- of any uncertainties and to enerate a
little enthusiasm.
Now, dear, I shall begin giving you report• on all the thin a you a&ked about.
2.
l.
Statue of' new epaoe
As you suggested l asked Jamie to phon• Sourry •
He phoned both Scurry and San
- March 18, 1942, 12 o'clock noon
Dearest:
Much important stuff is happening tod~y. First. we received three hot wires this morning on the labor situation,
one signed by the directors of the Chamber of Commerce of
Austin, the other two signed by San
- there was someone
in ou:r otfioe from eight-thirty in the morning to seven-thirty in
the evening and muoh of the day S1mdny and the moment the decision
was reached, it would mean a. lot to ua if' he would lat us knO"l:h
Fr013 the general compl~'l;ion or the talk
- Judge appointments, Army Air Support Command for Austin, office visits and mailing. Attachments concerning judge appointments for new Municipal Court of Appeals in the District of Columbia
- legtsl t1on, that the House passed it, and O'D. vetoed
it, thereby "saving my skin" and, I gathered, seving his prestige
with hie oompany. He se1d he was going to aue the Reader's Digest u: they printed the New Republic (or '.Nation??) story eeying
- ska again ••I orten I ••Nptel ~or ruture t1111e•• I
alao ••• Benp thia morning-•h• ••• beamiDC am aa14 ha wa led
to talk to me leiaurely an• t leng,h oon.
aul Bolton• llei
me alli a•k•• m•. "8 ti er omorrow.
But the beat ot all ••• aeeillg iear olt
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meeting at it's monthly luncheon Wednesday--for which I
would not give two pins except that I do see about twenty
Congressmen's wives there and this time it is being given
as a farewell party for Mrs. Leavy before they leave to
assume the new duties.
V
- ., Its th first t1me en7th1ng of that nature ha ever be•n done
in the history of the te.t1on and ev r7bod7 id eeem \o haT
grend
time.
2.
hie morning H rfield nd I ent to ae
r. Belnan about our
moving. ·e eimpl7 told him that we woulJ be mo•1ng between
- Harfield starting at station and station picnic, KTBC moving studio space, difficulty collecting on old account debts, getting new KTBC studio space furnished and arranged
- March 12, 1942--1 P.
Iii
Darling;
The best news I've had today came in a wire from Aunt
Effie this morning--a oopy of' which I shall enclose. In
February, 1939, just before she oame to see us in Washington
when ff'! were living at 1910 Kalorama
- ong
letter 't". eoom.rnending settlom nt tor 1'. 25 t o tlieir New York hea.d,1 u.r~r-
tora--o r m·-- y'bo ho had · lr ady. sont the l etter,
.. r now u sin
t.SC.t-. mud o. but the wholo thin~ OtHl 1t bo h oneotl)' pro nmmoosd
we hour bhn
tho lietv Y
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a
oopJ of .Dad•
note and I
taking
f~-- ~ll'~,:•/
John H1oks o m by thi morning.
fine, alb 1t he. 1a extremel1 7ouns.
I liked hi
th
loolf:•
n4 ma . er
Beal is so difighted
setting h1ma so is J. abel; I think there 1e a general
e1a m gettlne; round
- ~:45 p. m. April 14, 1943
Dearest love:
The last two days I have almost felt like throwing up my hands
--but I don't think I'd ever really do that.
Yesterday morning I went out to the transmitter and spent about
an hour ·with Mr. Meiners. I don't
- March 11, 1942,
11 A. M.
Darling:
Here goes the volume, written in the morning because if I wait until seven or eight o'clock at night
there is never time enough.
Your letter or March 9, in which you tell me that
you really are not ~using 100
- Maroh 8, 1942
Dee.rest love:
!~~
This is Sunday afternoon and there are on~ Ed, Nellie, and
I at the office. Mary is reading yours eeches at her room at
the Dodge for "prophecies" for 1\Jordon. O. J. i inted this morning--so Mary told me ; I
- of receipt is STANDARD TIME at point of destination
JA493 20 3 ~X~=MARSHALL TEX VIA MAYSVILLE KY 3r1
lrl l
LYNDON JOHNSON=
1
HOUSE OFF I-CE- BLDG
3?0
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-~A-SH- DC=
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HAPPY NEW YEAR TO MY DEAR THE SPEM
- Happy New Year
- a.
Rogers a~ ,ia not to sk for a new ol iti if 1oat1on , even
1f n w d.utea r nd re pone1b1l1tee were. adAed. .. becau e th t was
corning to be looked upon ae a.n ttempt at evasion of th law.
It goea to Houston, vhere they just rJ'mil._1t--no a.ct
- Asking to store film from election, for new film to take pictures of bluebonnets, and clippings from the clippings file to be used for writing a new program script
- LBJ and Ambassador's wives, party in honor of Anthony Celebrezze, Lady Bird and Lynda travel plans to New York for shopping, LBJ diet and health
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ii..el.d.A; and 7 new/.JpapVLwoman. PLeMe look
W.t and [P-ve me ';f0Wl opi..nion.
ai..
.the encl..o/.Jed
3.
_9. have a couple ot addi..Li.orw .to .the up corru..nfj5.tate dinnvw wl-u...ch cvz..e encl..o/.Jed.
Y
L/-. On 9anucvz..ff 2 0 _9. want
- State of the Union, LBJ health and exercise, Women Doers Luncheons, possible trip to New York for the opening of The Repertory Theatre
- .
do
to &n er some of your .uestio~a: (See your lett.r of
prtl 12 , 3rd p
(1)
e ,}
The news
nd ticker oerv1oe in ff;nuary showed ·1 245
bec&uae J:1?5 was for the month of January and ~la was for a prior
period. 1'be $180 for Jlaroh ehould have
-
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not be considered. ,J,.. ~ ... Ac,- ~
\ '"i ~ • -l .
Pho.rut Calls: Innumerable
O
~
I Exerc:tireS from four to six d°jf1 at m-~- ~ym~
Hts
~~ 0
~µ~~e.ttf-~~~~
~~t,~).a
Darling the news from the exercises is very good11 I h~~~
lost an inch in the hips, an inch
- this
part would be a total loss to you,
ASCA
COM TRACT
E seoe signed
the contract, J?aul
Anderson. the ASCAP a gent in
it together with a str ong
letter r eoommending settlement tor : 250 to their New York headq uarters--o r mn.ybo he had a lready sent
- to,al t ~150.
C st r
s r1tt en 1me Rad t o tor an 1t 1zed st · ement ad !gne4
purch s ord r.
ll ng them
out ~ new o n r hip end our 4ee1r to
pey ott 1f it ts proved to the auiti\torle atiefact t on that it 1
f1t
d bt. .1 e ane rd our resister d 1 tt r
- and the WPA
trying to re.train workers right in the plants, so they will be
useable when the new war-materials begin to be made. We are oertainly going to have a lot of salesmen to re-tra.in--I just wish
I thought there was somebody actually doing it.
Thursday
- ,rary from
August tbrough Aprill, $600, or a to~el of $1873. The contr&ct
pr1 ce for the library ia :~?100 per monthr,, but since they weren't
sending us new reles sea, scripts, or sales help ide&s, they reduce
it 25%and .mske it :,75 per month . Senator
- put it, his &p lication i n the 0N0P
in Tew Orleans 1st r'."'eJtember for · Li uten.. nt J. G., in ny sort of
constr1ction worm or in ra ar lot planning. He had a letter from
New Orleans sayi ·1g that they had no o:peninp;s for ·men of his qualifies ti
- • ( 1ncludee 1no14 nta ly
all th 10 oount1ee 1n our 41 triot), and h~ 41 new paper.
!..._,.en here. I am sure
HJ
on
would. ha'fe to cut do vn some.
ad {run ono l on column wid nd 6 inches hish, hlch I
thin ia the m1n1mwn, woul6 oost :1.ao. In 40 ne pa rs
- its
s· lesmen on a co_mission basis . ~ b~sic snlary of v45 par week
would be dlright with the unc~ers to.nd in,_:; that he hu c. :.:. quot o. of
about ,,300 per week cldvertisine; to sell ~n order to eL.rn that
sal~ry--of course~ new 1w~n could
