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...Willacy County, which lies almost at the southernmost tip of Texas, Luther Blanton, 57, and his son John, 24, went duck hunting one day fortnight ago. They went only a little distance from their own land, but they crossed a fence to get to a lagoon on the great King Ranch. They should not have done that. The King Ranch comprises 1,250,000 acres, four-fifths the size of Delaware, and belongs to the Klebergs who inherited it from their Grandfather Richard King, who founded it before the Civil War. With their 125,000 head of red Santa Gertrudis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEXAS: King Ranch Mystery | 12/7/1936 | See Source »

...Blanton's Marks Sirs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 7, 1936 | 9/7/1936 | See Source »

...been rumored that Red-baiting Congressman Tom Blanton of Texas has a secretary whose name is Marx. Could this rumor be verified...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 7, 1936 | 9/7/1936 | See Source »

Texas' Blanton has on his payroll one Ruby S. Whipke, who in private life is Mrs. George S. Marks, not Marx. Mrs.Marks will not be on the Blanton Congressional payroll after Jan. 3 because the Democratic Congressman was defeated for renomination last fortnight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 7, 1936 | 9/7/1936 | See Source »

...Charles A. Beard?" Stormed wiry, liberal U. S. Commissioner of Education John Ward Studebaker: "The implications of the situation in the District of Columbia are of great significance. . . . We can tolerate no dictatorial censorship of thinking and learning." Promptly the convention thundered through a resolution condemning loyalty oaths, the Blanton Rider, "curbs on freedom of teaching...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Teachers & Boys | 7/13/1936 | See Source »

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