Word: forte
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like most U.S. cities, Fort Worth (pop. 434,000) suffers downtown indigestion. Its business district, boxed in by railroads and the Trinity River, is fed by freeways that carry motorists into a honeycomb, where parking space is inadequate and traffic motion slows to a crawl...
...FORT WORTH STAR-TELEGRAM...
...campaign blasting Texas as "the most corrupt state in the nation," Publisher Allen charged that corruption flourished in Fort Worth under a syndicate headed by a Dallas state law enforcement officer (whom he did not name). The editorial said that an estimated 1,500 pinball machines in Fort Worth were operating without paying the $250 annual state tax, but did kick back $10 a week to the syndicate. It also charged that an unidentified politician had said "he only takes his cut because he wants to be in the race for lieutenant governor...
Last week a Fort Worth grand jury summoned Allen to tell where he got his information. Allen refused to tell. He was taken into court. Judge Dave McGee held him in contempt, fined him $100 and sentenced him to jail until he was ready to talk. As he turned in his neat business suit for striped dungarees, Allen said defiantly: "To expose some of this crookedness, it's worth the price. I will stay here for life if necessary...
...Allen's release. Fort Worth gave overdue recognition to the pinball machine problem that he-and others-had tilted at. The city council voted to outlaw the machines. Said Allen jubilantly: "The town is closed tight...