Word: rios
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Speaker of the House and a power second only to that of the President. His name was John Nance Garner and for 28 years he had ably and shrewdly represented in Congress his State's 15th district, an area the size of New York State stretching along the Rio Grande from above Eagle Pass to Brownsville on the Gulf...
...water color sketches showing ceremonial dances and hunting scenes by living Indian painters. All were in the native tradition, with brilliant color, splendid sense of design, for the most part excellently drawn. Among the best painters: Fred Kabotie, a smiling Hopi, and straight-nosed Ma Pe Wi, from the Rio Grande...
...state air fields, was not delivered. Forgiven and forgiving, Flyers Herndon & Pangborn went last week to the Japanese Consulate in Manhattan and received the White Medal of Merit of the Imperial Aviation Association. Unforgiven, Hinkler & plane were held at Fortaleza while fellow Britons appealed to the Ambassador at Rio de Janeiro...
Last month Station XER, operating on 735 kilocycles with 75,000-watt power, "the world's largest broadcasting station''! opened. It was a great day for Del Rio. The six-page Del Rio Evening News published a 24-page supplement full of advertisements all welcoming Dr. Brinkley and XER. Full-page advertisers were headed by the Del Rio Chamber of Commerce, which blurbed: "We have the utmost faith & confidence in Dr. & Mrs. J. R. Brinkley and those who made this great station possible." Cinema theatres advertised "XER Gala Week" featured by the Four Marx Brothers in Monkey Business. Dr. Brinkley...
...though his programs were broadcast from Mexico, Dr. Brinkley had not crossed the border. He did his broadcasting by remote control from a hotel room in Del Rio. He said he could broadcast from Milford by the same method, explained: "The Milford program would be merely a telephone conversation in the United States and not broadcast until it is in Mexico." The Mexican Department of Communications last week decided that the Villa Acuna station belonged to "a group composed entirely of Mexicans," that its erection was in compliance with the law, left the Department of Health...