Word: jacinto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next day the President gave to the heroes and history which Texas is advertising in its six-month Centennial (TIME, June 8). After a drive through Houston, he rode on a yacht down Houston Ship Channel to the battlefield at San Jacinto where General Sam Houston wiped out Santa Anna's army, won Texas' freedom in 20 minutes. There President Roosevelt praised Liberty and Peace, called on his 20,000 listeners to enlist in a "national war for the cause of humanity without shedding blood." Nor did he forget to mention ''my old friend" Texas...
Dividing the $3,000,000 velvet from the Federal Government was another matter. Houston, as Texas' biggest city (292,000), got $400,000 for memorializing the battlefield of San Jacinto. San Antonio as third largest (232,000) got $440,000 for repairing the Alamo. Austin, the state capital, is relatively small, but has the University of Texas which claimed $300,000. Fort Worth, the fourth city (163,000) had a potent pull in the person of the New Deal's Amon G. Carter and wangled $250,000. Texas' second biggest city, Dallas (260,- 000) ran off with...
...most settlers began scrambling pell-mell to the north in the famed "Runaway Scrape," But the blood of 800 of them was up now, and when Sam Houston yelled, "Remember the Alamo!" they rallied to him. Outside the present city of Houston, near where Buffalo Bayou meets the San Jacinto River, they took Santa Anna's army of 1,600 by surprise one afternoon in April. In 20 minutes Sam Houston killed nearly half the Mexicans, captured the rest, including Santa Anna, lost only nine of his own men. In September the Hero of San Jacinto was elected first...
...announced, suddenly attacked Cardenas again in force. He was sweating with it, his joints swelled, he ached, his temperature was high and he felt weak. He had lost about 33 lb. To suggestions that he take a convalescent trip, he snorted. Last week he arose, drove to the San Jacinto suburb of Mexico City and spent two hours patting more cattle at the National Cattle Exhibition...
...time for the trouble with Mexico. Santa Anna drenched The Alamo in its defenders' blood, put the Government and people of the new Republic into panic. Commander-in-Chief Sam Houston yelled, "Remember The Alamo" and raised an army out of the ground. In 15 minutes at San Jacinto he wiped out Santa Anna's far larger force, losing only six of his own men. Worshiping Texans gave the hero two terms as president, sent him to the U. S. Senate when Texas joined the Union...