Word: duvall
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Grandval was to blame. Grandval had bargained with the Moroccans, the Moroccans committed the murders. Therefore, Grandval was an accomplice, ran the colon argument. Their passions burst forth one day last week at an elaborate military funeral held in Rabat. The funeral was for tough-minded French General Raymond Duval. whose light plane crashed in the Atlas foothills during the operations against the Berbers. Because Duval had opposed Grandval's policies, the fantastic rumor spread that the Resident had sabotaged the general's plane...
...factor, Roland Kenneth Towery of the Cuero (Texas) Record, for his series on Texas land scandals (TIME, March 7); for local reporting under deadline pressure, Mrs. Caro Brown of the Alice (Texas) Daily Echo, for a series on one-man political rule in the state's Duval County (TIME, Feb. 15, 1954); for editorial writing, the Detroit's Free Press's Royce Howes, for an editorial on the responsibility of labor and management in an unauthorized U.A.W. strike against Chrysler; for cartooning, St. Louis Post-Dispatch Cartoonist Daniel R. Fitzpatrick, for a cartoon urging...
...Coming of Trouble. Investigations of Parr almost always fizzled out (he did nine months in a federal reformatory for income-tax evasion back in 1936, but President Truman was happy to issue him a full pardon a few years later). When George Parr passed the word, Duval County produced automatic majorities of 100 to 1. In surrounding counties the vote was often almost as high...
Alliance with Baronies. Archie Parr, a six-bit-a-day cowboy turned politician, started the empire on June 18, 1911. It was election day and there was blood in the dusty street of tiny San Diego, county seat of Duval County; gun-packing "Anglos," bent on rule by the gun, shot down three local Mexicans. Archie Parr, who spoke Spanish, took the side of the Mexicans. After that, in the old Mexican tradition, he reigned as their jefe-the man who solved their problems and gave them orders. He voted the people-and in return he gave Duval County Latin...
When he went abroad, two dark-skinned, cowboy-booted bodyguards were seldom far away. To the Mexicans of Duval County he represented both love and fear. Like his father he spoken fluent Spanish, almost invariably named a full slate of Latin Americans for the voters to elect. The sick, the jobless, the unlucky were seldom turned away from Parr's air-conditioned office. Duval County got good roads (built by George Parr's road company). He took care of important friends even more dramatically; one Thomas Y. Pickett, named as county oil evaluator (a job which takes...