Word: blantons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bullets were round and their motion through the barrel resembled that of the screw ball thrown by Pittsburgh's Cy Blanton, and when the bullet left the end of the barrel, it had a sharper curve than Dizzy Dean's They went straight for a certain distance and then broke sharply like a pitcher nipping the corner of an imaginary plate...
...Vincent Byrne, opened up 15 birth control stations. The Bishop's roars soon drove him to cover. Last week Bishop Byrne was roaring again because both houses of Puerto Rico's Legislature had just passed a bill permitting physicians to tell their patients about birth control. Governor Blanton Winship's predecessor, Catholic Robert H. Gore, began his term by announcing that he trusted in God to control population. Governor Winship, late of the Army's Judge Advocate General's Department, was expected to side with Science, sign the bill...
...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...
...Blanton heard three shots some time after her husband's and son's departure. No more were heard. By last week the indignation of citizens of San Perlita was at boiling point. The men did not come home that night, or the next, or the next. They sneered at their own Sheriff William Cragg, who offered a reward of $250 for the return of the Blantons "dead or alive." Citizens gathered with arms and would have invaded the King Ranch had not Texas Rangers appeared. Captain William McMurray of the Rangers persuaded them to declare a three...
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...