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Frank Hamer is 6 ft. 2 in., weighs 200 lb. and is reputed to be one of the best bagatelle players in the U. S. He wears a big black hat and his trousers outside his boot tops, speaks little and that little in a slow, courteous drawl. In Texas his marksmanship and speed on the draw are famed. His favorite revolver he calls "Betty" and some 60 badmen have died at his hand. For 27 years before November 1932, he was a Texas ranger. "When they elected a woman governor for the second time," he explained, "I quit...
...respected. ... In the old days no smoking was allowed in postoffices, and cigars had to be left in the entrance hall, but today you can go to the postoffice with your pipe in your mouth. ... In those days a deputy would call on the prefect of police with his hat in his hand, while today the subprefect meets the deputy at the railroad station and carries his bag. We Alsatians don't like that. It puts politics above the machinery of the state...
...wire systems; railroads, for their ancient and exclusive contracts with Western Union; newspapers and news services, for their favorable press rates. A delegation of Manhattan messenger boys, afraid that code wages would be too low and code hours too long, went to Washington and were forced to pass the hat for train fare home. But the Telegraph & Cable Code hearings quickly reverted to the old family feud between Postal, which does one-fifth of the U. S. telegraph business, and Western Union, which does practically all of the rest...
...Patient, cheerful Chet is only too glad to forsake the Picayune job because he wants to be on hand when Eve has her baby. The Maine is blown up, the band plays "Stars & Stripes Forever" and Chet goes off to the Spanish War in the blue pants and campaign hat of his militia company. Nine years later Chet loses his job and his insurance in the 1907 panic. He does not complain when his thankless, drunken brother-in-law leaves the little family flat for a discreditable marriage. Ten years later Chet and Eve's son, a promising youngster...
...appearance. This was no Carrie Nation who came to speak on the evils of liquor; the girl in the brown and tan sports suit had charm, a new avenue of approach, which the recently formed Allied Youth Movement or, as one of her aides described it. Temperance Gone High Hat is using against liquor...