Word: paso
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...which the Frisco recently got control. This branch gives it tappage to the present Florida flood of shipments. The main line of the Rock Island runs from Chicago to Denver and Colorado Springs, with another line going from Chicago to Santa Rosa, N. M., where it joins the El Paso & Southwestern (a branch of the Southern Pacific). Other lines stretch from St. Louis to Kansas City, St. Paul and Minneapolis. Altogether it covers 14 Midland states. At St. Louis, Kansas City, Memphis and elsewhere it makes contact with the Frisco. Thus the southern termini of the merged lines will...
Author White, oldest living native of U. S. parentage in El Paso, Tex., pours gentle, drawling scorn upon the romanticism with which Zane Greys and Harold Bell Wrights have invested the early inhabitants of the Southwest, and upon the paunchy, pasty-faced commercialism of the present inhabitants. Mock modest, feignedly casual, like a hoary old hell-raiser talking to his grandchildren, he draws upon his indiscriminate youth for gory chunks of six-gun realism quite as studied as that of the Covered Wagon or U. P. Trails he so vigorously denies. He explains the Jehovah complex of a gunman like...
...West, as everyone knows, there is no "organized" baseball. But the towns of Fort Bayard (New Mexico), El Paso (Texas), Juarez (Mexico) and Douglas (Ariz.) have teams which play in the Frontier League., Last year Chase went to Douglas, played on the team. The local Chambermen of Commerce told him to get better players and offered to ' pay for them. He sent for Weaver and Gandil. The Chambermen began to pay out $10,000 a month; the three unfrocked players began to win games for Douglas. Chase plays center field; Gandal is at first; Weaver at shortstop is the best...
When Samuel Gompers set out for Mexico City (TIME, Dec. 1), he went to his death. But his way thither was a path of triumph. He, with honor, love, obedience, troops of friends, entrained for the 50-hour journey from El Paso, Tex., under military escort. At Mexico City, he and his fellows from the A. F. L. attended the Convention of the Pan-American Federation of Labor. In his capacity as President, he presided. He also attended the inauguration of President Calles, who piled honors upon him. Yet his honors came at a price...
Meanwhile, across the Rio Grande at Juarez the Mexican Confederation of Labor was holding its sixth annual Convention. That afternoon, the Mexican delegates, 1,000 strong, marched across the international bridge into El Paso. There came agrarian delegates, sandaled, in white cotton suits, with pink and orange scarfs and straw sombreros; there came industrial delegates in overalls ; there came white-collared workers in white collars; there came women workers in orange and white blouses with black shawls. Straight to Liberty Hall marched the Mexicans and entered amid cheers. The leaders of the parade, one of them carrying a Mexican flag...