Word: southwester
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...embarrassing $9 million bid for McLean Gardens from the Veterans Cooperative Housing Association). The fact that Leo Corrigan made off with these two prized housing developments (they have all been profitable to DHC; would surprise no Texans, who know Corrigan as probably the biggest real-estate operator in the Southwest...
...grey morning on Chicago's southwest side. Sooty slush was ankle deep, the wind whined so bitterly through the littered alleys that the police outside grey brick St. Procopius' Church beat their arms against their sides. But from everywhere the people came...
...Southwest had its favored son, big (214 Ib.) Weldon Humble of Rice Institute, who played guard but was fast enough to play halfback. Notre Dame's line, the toughest in football, won two places-Guard John Mastrangelo and Tackle George Connor. Army contributed (besides Tucker, Blanchard & Davis) a 200-lb. end, Hank Foldberg. Georgia Tech, which 18 years ago had an All-America center, "Peter" Fund, had another in Paul Duke. The beefiest man on this season's All-America is Tennessee's 230-lb. tackle, Dick Huffman...
Nowhere else in the country are activities so open and patently commercialized. The colleges in the southwest (Texas) Conference have strict rules against proselytizing ballplayers. They have rules against dubious employment for athletes. But lettermen still go their quiet way, sweeping down the chapel steps, waking the dean, winding the steeple clock. A prominent Oklahoma coach recently told the press that the members of his squad were making more money than he was. The college coach who is better paid than his college president is not the rarity that was. But the story of the western halfback who was injured...
...more than doubtful whether the deluge will carry 26 seats in the House and 9 in the Senate to allow for the first right-of-the-aisle Congress since 1930. Certain facts must be dealt with--the South, except for heresy in Kentucky, will still be solid. The southwest, claims of insurgent Democrats withal, will string along with tears in its eyes. And the balance in the east will not be fundamentally altered. Joe Guffey seems to be the major Democratic loss in this area, whereas landslide Republican gains throughout New York, New Jersey and New England are based...