Word: paso
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Paso, 14,000 fans basked in the Sun Bowl, saw Ohio's Western Reserve beat Tempe (Ariz.) State Teachers, Border Conference champions...
...answer might have been found in an editorial in the Scripps-Howard El Paso Herald-Post, which had said accusingly: "John Garner has not been aiding in the struggle to make the nation secure-the nation which in the last 40 years has honored him with high position and paid him and his wife-secretary $500,000 for their services. . . . He has sulked among his goats. It is not of record, however, that John Garner has refused the $2,500 in salary to which he is entitled, but has not earned. For 40 years the taxpayers have trained John Garner...
...Chihuahua, across the Rio Grande from El Paso and San Antonio, revolt did break out on Independence Day, but it was a fizzler, not a firecracker. Lieut. Colonel Cruz Villalba, defeated Almazanista candidate for Governor, led "between 100 and 700" men into the hills in what the Government described as "a hostile attitude." The Government paid little attention at first, but two days later admitted that a large Federal force under General Antonio Guerrero had taken the field against the rebels. So rugged is the State of Chihuahua that a few well-armed men can carry on guerrilla warfare against...
...back to Convention Hall, where they had set up everything from a cafeteria to a hospital, sat on hard chairs in 117° heat and were harangued by their rafter-rattling leader, "Judge" Joseph Frederick Rutherford. Twenty lesser gatherings of Witnesses, from Boston and Honolulu, to Seattle and El Paso, heard Rutherford over loudspeakers and leased telephone wires...
...Paso, Marie Térèse Rétain, 83, French-born widow of a Texas physician, said of her brother-in-law, the 84-year-old Premier of France: "He is too old for his present responsibility. He should not have taken...