Word: fe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After the vote, brush-mustached David Chavez Jr., who left a $15,000 federal judgeship to go after the Democratic nomination for governor, sat in a Santa Fe friend's house wondering what to do next. Also wondering were at least 13 other Spanish-Americans who ran against "Anglo" candidates and lost. For the first time in years, New Mexico's Democratic ticket would be virtually Anglo. Heading the list: for governor, a run-of-the-platform politician named John E. Miles...
Remember Santa Fe. When FBI agents called on him and asked him to explain his activities, he talked willingly. Did he know Fuchs? No. Had he served as a Communist agent? No, certainly not. The questioning went on insistently for eight days. Gold never lost his composure. But discrepancies developed in his story. He had denied ever being west of the Mississippi. But one day, in casual conversation with agents about his favorite American cities, he told how much he liked Santa Fe, N.Mex...
...agents pounced. Harry Gold was told: "We know you saw Dr..Fuchs and took information from him in Santa Fe. Are you going to deny it?" Gold displayed no nervousness; for a long time he sat silent, apparently deliberating. Finally he said, "All right. I did receive information from Dr. Fuchs. I will tell you." He began making a long confession...
...arguing before the state supreme court that Lindrith High School pupils could legally say the Lord's Prayer in their classrooms and study "basic, non- denominational Christian concepts." Last week came a ringing war whoop from Indian-loving Novelist Oliver (Laughing Boy) La Farge in the Santa Fe New Mexican...
...roads struck were the Pennsylvania west and north of Harrisburg, the New York Central west of Buffalo, the Southern, and the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, plus, at week's end, 100 miles of Santa Fe track in California used by the Union Pacific. By this kind of piecemeal attack, the firemen tangled up the nation's heartland without causing a national emergency that might have brought the President into the fight...