Word: laredo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Laredo, Tex., one Paul Max Neuhaus set out to win a $500 bet by knocking a golf ball to Rouses Point, N. Y. (3,000 mi.) in 160 days...
Although he remained in Austin and had no chance to use his new "Sunday gun"-a $300 six-shooter presented him by the citizens of Laredo-no one was prouder of this biggest Ranger roundup in two years than William ("Bill") Sterling. Last month he became commandant of the Rangers when Governor Ross D. Sterling (no kin) appointed him Adjutant General of the State. A lean six-footer, he is a graduate of Texas Agricultural & Mechanical College, was a lieutenant of infantry during the War but was kept from going overseas by powder-burned eyes. He has been a Ranger...
...Government last week gave Mexico positive assurances that hereafter the State of Texas would observe company manners toward Mexican statesmen in transit between the two countries. Result: the Mexican Government reopened its consulate at Laredo...
...month prior this main trade portal between the U. S. and Mexico had been slammed closed because Laredo's District Attorney John A. Vails had threatened to arrest General Plutarco Elias Calles, one-time President of Mexico, on an old murder conspiracy charge. Born a Spaniard, Vails had once been a Mexican officeholder under Diaz. Naturalized a U. S. citizen after Diaz's fall, he flaunted his political hostility to the new Mexican regime by threatening its still-strongest figure...
...Laredo business languished. But freight cars had to be diverted to Brownsville and Eagle Pass. Governor Dan Moody appealed to Secretary of State Stimson, then to President Hoover himself. Texas Senators implored the President to do something. It was even suggested that President Hoover hold a long distance telephone conversation with Mexico's President Emilio Portes...