Word: anna
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Most advanced Federal settlement is the Dyess Colony, 18 mi. from Osceola, named in honor of the late State WPAdministrator William Randolph Dyess, killed in the crash of the The Southerner airliner five months ago (TIME, Jan. 27). At Dyess last fortnight 480 neat-looking cropper families gaped at Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt, who, beaming with pleasure, addressed a few words of encouragement, shook hands with one & all. Wrote Columnist Roosevelt in her diary, My Day: "They have a community house, a recreation hall, and a small hospital. All of these expenses are prorated back on the general expense...
...Yale's Gothic Harkness Memorial Quadrangle, now split into two Yale colleges, was the gift of his mother, Anna M. Richardson Harkness...
Next day the President gave to the heroes and history which Texas is advertising in its six-month Centennial (TIME, June 8). After a drive through Houston, he rode on a yacht down Houston Ship Channel to the battlefield at San Jacinto where General Sam Houston wiped out Santa Anna's army, won Texas' freedom in 20 minutes. There President Roosevelt praised Liberty and Peace, called on his 20,000 listeners to enlist in a "national war for the cause of humanity without shedding blood." Nor did he forget to mention ''my old friend" Texas...
...scattered Mexican garrisons had been easy to dispose of, but in February 1836, Mexico's Dictator Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna crossed the Rio Grande with an army of 6,000, a threat of death to every American in Texas. Against him, in the Alamo mission at San Antonio, Col. William Travis and Col. James Bowie stood with 184 men, including Davy Crockett and a dozen buckskin-clad Tennesseans. At tiny Washington on the Brazos River, 160 miles to the northeast, Sam Houston and some 60 citizens were drawing up Texas' declaration of independence. At Goliad, 140 miles...
...Clinton Prison, Dannemora, N. Y., Burglar Charlie Tortora, faced with a five-year term, fretted about his 18-year-old wife Anna. Burglar Louis Wolf, leaving on parole, promised to take care of her. Arrested last week in Brooklyn and charged with 75 burglaries were Louis Wolf, Anna Tortora...