Word: sol
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...true that there is a movement afoot among Texas Republicans to pay Billie Sol Estes' fare to Hyannisport...
...Billie Sol Estes scandal just kept growing and growing-and every time an answer turned up, so did a few more questions. Last week the New York Herald Tribune (see THE PRESS) got its eager hands on a copy of the Agriculture Department's secret report on Billie Sol's cotton manipulations. Dated Oct. 27, 1961, the 140-page document clearly warned that Estes was a sleight-of-hand wheeler-dealer. Yet, three weeks after the report was submitted, Secretary of Agriculture Orville Freeman confirmed Estes' appointment to the National Cotton Advisory Committee, and the Pecos Ponzi...
Forgiving Verse. The Independent was not exactly amused by the competition, especially when Billie Sol scooted around town corralling most of the advertising and shooting off his mouth about those right-wingers on that other paper. For the first time in its history, the Independent really began to scratch for news, and in Pecos the news, as usual, involved Billie Sol. The suspicions of Independent Editor Oscar Griffin, 29, zeroed in on the 15,000 fertilizer tanks that Billie Sol was supposed to own. Week after week, the Independent needled Billie Sol. That was well before anyone else thought...
...Billie Sol tried his best to talk back. He brought in a new editor, Tracy Sloan Byers from Odessa. His paper broke out in a rash of loud headlines-NOTHING DEROGATORY ABOUT ESTES GRAIN STORAGE, and POLITICAL HACKS KEEP UP STRUGGLES FOR HEADLINES-the sort of things Billie Sol could show off to friends. A passel of reporters came to town, and Byers almost hollered up a fit: "One concludes that the newspaper hatchet men sent to Pecos are instructed to find and write any fictitious or fabulous story, without regard to its truthfulness . . One cheerful thought is that Pecos...
People in Pecos could read the News any day and come away thinking that Billie Sol Estes was just about the best man ever to walk God's earth. Broke though he might be, Billie Sol seemed determined to go on running his paper...