Word: southwester
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jennings, onetime "redheaded terror of the Southwest," now 82-year-old proprietor of a one-acre chicken ranch, went to court in Los Angeles to sue for defamation of character ($100,000 worth). On the Lone Ranger radio program, he had not only been pictured as a common burglar and been suggested as responsible for turning a boy into a criminal, he complained, but "they had this Lone Ranger shootin' a gun out of my hand-and me an expert!" The onetime cattle-rustler, train-robber, killer (some dozen men by his own count), jailbird† (pardoned by President...
...Marine Howard ("Red") Maley helped get Southern Methodist's oldtime aerial circus going again with a 51-0 whitewashing of outclassed Backland A.A.F. The other favorite in the Southwest, Texas, had a threatening mixture of big & little stars - 137-lb. Breakaway-Back Byron Gil-lory and mountainous Tackles (combined weight 525 Ibs.) Harland Wetz and Jim Plyler...
...white-faced cattle were sere again with the late summer heat. Sidetracked freight cars still bore the familiar slogans on their red sides: The Route of Phoebe Snow, The Katy, The Southern Serves the South. Leaves were turning yellow in the high valleys of the Rocky Mountains. In the Southwest, mirages still sprang up along the roads and the horizon bloomed with the dust of distant plowing...
...Southwest, famed for its tough badmen, a tough good man died last week. Elfego Baca was little known outside New Mexico, yet he left a saga rivaling Billy...
...Southwest Pacific, the Army rate rose from five per 1,000 in January...