Word: antonio
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Antonio's South Side, near where the middle-class residential district shades off into slums, a juvenile gang fight raged. The "Harlandale Gang" had run afoul of the "South Sans." A band of "Tex-Mexes" (boys of Mexican ancestry) poured in from the West Side to join the battle. The police alarm was serious. In war-booming San Antonio juvenile crimes had rocketed in a single year from 10% to 50% of the cases on the police docket, and there had been three juvenile murders. When the battle was over property had been damaged and no less than...
...fight, which took place one night last June, turned out to be one of the best things that ever happened to San Antonio. For it inspired a 62-year-old criminal investigator in the sheriff's office to a brilliantly simple solution of the city's juvenile delinquency: he turned the juvenile gangsters into cops...
This would be the fourth U.S. wartime Christmas. The first already seemed as if it had been in another decade. On Christmas Eve, 1941, antiaircraft guns were set up in the backyards of West Coast cities. San Antonio's telephone system was jammed by a rumor-the Jap Fleet was cruising into the Gulf of Mexico. Electric toasters, alarm clocks, nylon stockings were still for sale. There were debutante balls at which orchestras played Blues in the Night. Everywhere, East, West and South, the people waited for air raids. Christmas, they thought, would be just the time the enemy...
...famous and was known as Lupe Velez. She lived in a Spanish mansion, bathed in a jade-green tub, slept in a bed which was eight feet square, and was courted by many handsome men. She had been impatient with her good home in Mexico and with San Antonio's Convent of Our Lady of the Lake, where she was instructed in the duties of womanhood. But although she lived in Hollywood for 17 years and changed the color of her hair, she could never forget that she was really Guadaloupe Velez de Villalobos. Last week this fact proved...
They captured no Communists. But they bagged five other politicos. Most important: Antonio Santamarina, multimillionaire cattleman, former Vice President and leader of the National Democratic (conservative) Party. It was as if the Dies Committee had gone Communist hunting and returned with John D. Rockefeller...