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Died. Joseph Jefferson Mansfield, 86, gentle, mild-mannered Representative from Texas' rich ninth district (Galveston and environs), the oldest member of Congress, in which he had served continuously for the past 30 years, 26 of them in a wheel chair; in Bethesda...
...longshoremen and the local fire department troubled about the Grandcamp. But as the smoke rolled blacker, some 200 people gathered at the dock to watch. By 9 a.m., the fire fighters, who knew something about the explosive fury of nitrate, figured they had better move the ship out into Galveston Bay. Twelve minutes later it was too late...
...Galveston. He hit the East Coast ports. Everywhere he went he talked, dishing it out to oilers, firemen, wipers, seamen. What he said ran like this...
...Galveston, Bishop Christopher E. Byrne called for a year's boycott of Houston's Loew's Theater, which insisted on running the Hughes film...
...News is the lengthening shadow of a man named George B. Dealey, who came to the U.S. by windjammer from England, caught on with the Galveston News as an office boy. At 26, his bosses sent him to Dallas to found a duplicate of their paper...