Word: tex
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...facts. I now have the time to devote to other worthwhile reading and yet be fully in formed as to current events. I would like to see your Music department enlarged and amplified, but then we all have our pet obsessions. WALLER CROW Dittlinger-Crow Process Co., New Braunfels, Tex...
DONALD V. HENDERSON Livingston, Tex...
...around whose heads have centered the storms of controversy raised by the charges of commercialism and over-emphasis that seemed more numerous than ever this year. But the season has been even less carefree in those regions beyond the pale where the professionals exploit their prowess for financial gain. Tex Richard, the leading promoter of boxing talent, having taken the new champion, Gene Tunny, under his wing, organized what is known as an elimination tournament to select an opponent for him. But the result resembled that of the struggle between the Kilkenny cats, for when it was all over...
...appreciation of opera (both aesthetic and financial) is often regarded as the prerogative of the largest cities-of Manhattan and Chicago, particularly. Last week San Antonio, Tex., had a turn, received the Chicago Civic Company with two capacity houses on the same day, paid some $50,000 for the privilege, $5,000 of which, as clear profit, was returned to the guarantors...
...railroad during the great panic of 1893. The Texas Midland, 125 miles long, had completely slipped her mind. She found it one day when she had nothing better to do than paw over some dusty old papers. She sent her son, Colonel Edward Howland Robinson Green, to Terrell, Tex., headquarters of the road, to ascertain its value. It was a long sort, of job, as the Interstate Commerce Commission learned later. The road did not pay. Colonel Green established himself at Terrell, became a prominent figure in Texan Republican politics. It is still repeated in Texas that Mark Hanna himself...