Word: duvally
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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...
...that make this particular production noteworthy. First is the remarkably smooth job that is done by the Tufts group. With only a few minor exceptions, the actors were professionally natural in their various guises. Particularly outstanding were the two students in the leading roles, Joe, the philosopher, and Kitty Duval, the whore. The treatments here were full and sympathetic, played with accomplished finesse...
...lead of 48,000 to 34,000; Richmond, expected to go Republican, gave Eisenhower a big lead (21,866 to 14,314). In Florida, Ike not only led in the big resort cities (full of transplanted Yankees) but ran only slightly behind Stevenson in industrial and thoroughly Democratic Duval County(Jacksonville...
...nightspot bar on Key West's Duval Street, a full-bloused songstress named Rae Waller was tickling the patrons' ears with a new song about Harry Truman. (Sample verse: "Bar pianos strain their glands/For the touch of Harry's hands.") Yet while the song poked fun at him, Key West's most important tourist was more than welcome in the southernmost city...
...Vine. Only the gamblers are disgruntled about the visitation. State officials, fearing headlines in this year of Kefauver, sent word along the grapevine: shut down while the President is in town. The Saturday before he landed, Duval...