Word: tex
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...word "inland" in reference to Beaumont, Tex., was a slip-up on my part, so far as I know. It did not belong in the paragraph. I stand convicted of this offense, thus, by one word, robbing the book of all truth...
Pending General Smith's return (in February) from foreign service, West Point is to be temporarily superintended by a cavalry man? Brigadier General Edwin B. Winans, whose latest command was the First Cavalry Division at Fort Bliss, Tex...
...obtain for modest "sky pilots," Army rankings which they consider commensurate with the spiritual plane of their duties. Should Chief of Chaplains Axton, the Utah Congregationalist, be retired, next in line for his post would be Chaplain E. P. Easterbrook, Methodist Episcopalian now stationed at Fort Sam Houston, Tex...
...since the Civil War had U. S. cavalry engaged in maneuvers on the scale of those conducted last week on 120 square miles of terrain in and about Marfa, Tex. Some 280 officers, 4,000 men, 3,200 horses and 1,500 mules were deployed over gulches, hillocks and sagebrush plains-the Second Cavalry Brigade (Fort Bliss) playing "Brown" army to the "White" army of the First Cavalry Brigade (Fort Clark) and First Cavalry Regiment (Marfa, Tex.). Tanks, cannon, airplanes, Red Cross ambulances and every appurtenance of real war, right down to hot weather, secrecy and red tape, accompanied...
...lamps over the ring . . . all is darkness in the muttering mass of crowd beyond the spotlight. . . . The 'mike' is fixed on the ring floor in front of us. . . . The crowd is thickening in the seats. . . . There's Jim Jeffries . . .Mayor Thompson in a cowboy hat . . . Irvin Cobb . . . John Ringling . . . Tex Rickard in a beige fedora. . . . It's like the Roman Coliseum...