Word: grandee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The erosion of the houses has been considerable and this, in a very dry region, points to great age. The village is farther to the north and west than other pueblos, and its age has been tentatively set at from 5,000 to 10,000 years - which makes it as...
George Jay, the eldest son, undertook to complete his father's transcontinental system and "muffed it." He started building the Western Pacific. He fought Harriman, Morgan and Kuhn, Loeb & Co. He bought an entrance into Pittsburgh for the Wabash at a great price. When the panic of 1907 came...
Meanwhile, across the Rio Grande at Juarez the Mexican Confederation of Labor was holding its sixth annual Convention. That afternoon, the Mexican delegates, 1,000 strong, marched across the international bridge into El Paso. There came agrarian delegates, sandaled, in white cotton suits, with pink and orange scarfs and straw...
Once there was a tradition in Texas: "No law west of the Pecos." In the old days, brave and bad, the pistol alone was guardian of good manners. In slightly later times a judge, one Roy Bean, conducted a combined saloon and courthouse in which it was his habit to...
While the Nickel Plate consolidation has held the headlines, another railway merger involving an even greater mileage has been quietly passing through its preliminary stages. When the Interstate Commerce Commission meets next month, the Missouri Pacific Railroad will apply for permission to acquire the New Orleans, Texas & Mexico Railway, by...