Word: mex
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Drastically reduced the city's fights between "Tex-Mex" boys and others...
...Tolar, N. Mex. one afternoon last week a derailment of a Santa Fe freight car touched off the charge in a load of 41 tons of aerial bombs, wrecking several houses. Thirteen minutes after the explosion and 90 minutes before the news was filed for the Associated Press, the Amarillo (Tex.) Globe-News, 100 miles away, had the story. The Globe-News received 24 telephone calls from readers anxious to win the $10 prize offered by Publisher Gene Howe for the week's best news...
Night Must Fall. In Albuquerque, N. Mex., a newspaper advertisement read: "For Sale- 12 floodlights. Two WPA out houses. Reasonable...
Died. Irving Patrick O'Hay, 74, dashing, Irish-born soldier of fortune and race horse trainer, self-styled "apostle of discontent"; of a heart attack; in Taos, N. Mex. He once complained that it was hard to feed himself between wars, was presented with the only gold meal ticket ever issued by the New York Society of Restaurateurs...
...anger. He finally collected himself and handed newsmen a reply, just in time to catch the Monday morning papers. Said he: "My opponent indicated that he has no program and has sunk to mere quoting from Mein Kampf. . . . I shall examine his record with unvarnished candor." At Belen, N. Mex., Tom Dewey got off, walked into a glass phone booth in the station, put in a long distance call to National Chairman Herbert Brownell. While Indian children and cowboys ogled him through the glass, Tom Dewey ordered a second radio network (170 more stations on the Blue) for his speech...