Word: hellers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tail Roarer. A Nacogdoches County boy who never finished high school, Vail Ennis high-tailed it for the oilfields when he was 16. He neither drank nor smoked, but he was a heller who would try to whup the pants off anybody he met. The Bee County sheriff cottoned to this abstemious rip-tail roarer and made him his chief deputy in 1941. In 1943, Vail killed his first man when he shot "his way out of a tight place while making an arrest. He was tried for murder, and acquitted. A year later he was elected sheriff. Fifteen days...
...group is an outgrowth of the Steering Committee of the Seminar, formed last September to supervise the project during the winter and spring organizational periods. Peirce, as chairman, will serve as assistant to Clemens Heller 1G, who heads the steering committee and is executive secretary of the overall Seminar endeavor...
Speaking before an open meeting in Cabot Hall sponsored by the Radcliffe NBA, Heller explained that primarily the seminar had been successful in converting most of its hundred-odd students from sheer nationalism to a "fooling for all of Europe...
...Cleniens Heller 2G, originator and prime move of last summer's seminar on American civilization at Salzburg last night pointed put the three-old accomplishment of his experiment in international education...
This latter, Heller believes, stemmed from the attitude of "complete freedom of discussion and lack of compromise which prevailed." He emphasized that the seminar was only a means of satisfying the great European hunger for intellectual exchange, never a vehicle for propaganda...