Word: mexia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Experienced cleanser and quieter of Texas towns is burly, bronzed General Wolters. After the War he took his rangy troopers to Galveston Island, there quelled a festering longshoremen's strike. Later he was sent to oil-booming Mexia (pronounced Mayhea) where bootleggers and guntoters had usurped municipal government. "Mopupus Jake" and his troopers drove the usurpers to the hills, followed them in airplanes, corralled them...
...Borger situation was similar to that in Mexia. City and county officials were conniving with scofflaws, winking at murders, sponsoring speakeasies and brothels. General Wolters supplanted the conniving officials with his Texas Rangers. Khaki-clad patrolmen directed traffic, policed the suddenly quiet streets. Drinkers no longer rioted in wide-open saloons but tippled alone at home behind locked doors. Bootleggers and daughters of joy, hearing the oldtime frontier command to "get out of town by sundown," scuttled away. The women barbers changed to clothes from pajamas...
...Owen J. Roberts, in charge of the oil trials. Mr. Blackmer was onetime (1922) an official of the Prairie Oil Co., which, along with Sinclair oil companies, bought from a Canadian oil company 33,333,000 barrels of oil. The Canadian company had bought this oil from the Mexia (oil) companies of Texas. It was claimed that the Canadian company, which made some millions of dollars on the transaction, was a "shadow" or "dummy," concern, and that Albert B. Fall received $230,000 in Liberty Bonds as his share of the profits. When the Teapot Dome case first came...
...transpired was that the proceedings had nothing to do with the Sinclair and Doheny oil leases. The witnesses were an entirely different group from that which was examined by the Senatorial Committees (TIME, May 12 et seq.). The new investigation is supposed to have something to do with the Mexia oil field in Texas...
...higher than in goitrous regions. The investigators also analyzed the water from various cities in the U. S. It was found that the water with the highest iodin content had 18,470 times as much iodin as that with the lowest content. The richest supply was that at Mexia, Tex., with 18,470, and next was Stanford, Calif., with 10,580. The poorest were at Duluth, Spokane, Rockford. This seems to answer the argument against increasing artificially the amount of iodin in the city water since people frequently go from an iodin-poor district to an iodin-rich...