Word: sections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...argue the relative merits of various fishing spots on the Texas coast. They are all good. It is our hope, however, that you will print this letter to correct an entirely erroneous impression that the casual reader might form of fishing on the coast of the Port Isabel-Brownsville section, so that justice may be done...
...knocking $2,000 off Relief Administrator Harry Hopkins' $12,000 salary. Administrator leaders had to filibuster to keep the earmarked bill from being passed. Finally, assured by Leader Rayburn that he had just talked with the President and could promise "an adjustment fair to every man, to every section, to every project," the rambunctious House agreed to put the bill aside for a week...
Just what was done for "every man, every section, every project" in the interim, no one would say definitely when the bill was taken up again one day last week. But that something had been done was immediately evident. Alabama's Joe Starnes, flood control bloc leader, let it be known that he had "positive assurance" that there would be flood control pork, earmarking or no earmarking. New York's Alfred Beiter declared the Public Works bloc had done "better than we bargained for." Texas' Marvin Jones did not conceal his opinion that he would get much...
Thereafter he had only the kindest words to say of that section of the U. S. which reveres both the Mason-Dixon and the color lines: "Was it not the Solid South, bulwark and Gibraltar of Democracy, that gave us Franklin Delano Roosevelt as President of the U. S.?* I need not tell you how that solid, united support of the South saved our Nation from destruction. . . . It was a Virginian, George Washington. . . . It was another Virginian, Thomas Jefferson. . . . It was Old Hickory Jackson, from Tennessee. . . . We need, above all else, peace. . . . Our great Secretary of State, Cordell Hull...
...Texas, an "East Dallas Special" is a thin, sharp knife wielded by Negro desperadoes. An East Texas Special is the fat, dull extra-section edition of the Longview News, published annually to celebrate the "natural or man-made resources of East Texas," among which are oil, roses, yams, timber, tomatoes, ribbon cane. Last year, the News claimed the world's record for a daily's volume with 350 pages. Last week its East Texas news, boosting editorials and local advertising swelled up to 370 pages, a new high...