Word: tex
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Austin, Tex. Funnyman Will Rogers performed for the benefit of the Red Cross Drought relief fund (see p. 22). One of his stories: "[At a dinner party] everybody watched Mr. [Charles Evans] Hughes to see what he would do with his glass. He didn't keep us waiting long? just parted his whiskers, said 'Let her go!' and drained it to the bottom. Now there's a man after my own heart! ... If he would only consent to run [again] for President, come down here and travel with me from town to town and let me shave...
Cruising speed of 125 m, p, h. for transport planes is considered creditable. Last week Bowen Air Lines Inc. declared it would operate a passenger service between Fort Worth, Tex. and Washington, D. C. with planes that cruise at 175 m. p. h. and have a top speed of 230 m. p. h. The schedule, if fulfilled, would be fastest in the world (1,210 mi. in 7 hr.). The planes, to be built by Detroit Aircraft Corp., are a six-passenger cabin type of Lockheed Sirius, heretofore built only in two-place open cockpit style. They will be powered...
...close the deal. Chicago has no other promoters above the level of John ("Mique") Malloy and James C. Mullen, with whom no important fighters now do business. Outmaneuvering Strotz, President Carey of Manhattan's Madison Square Garden Corp. quickly revived the Garden's Illinois subsidiary which Tex Rickard had used in 1927. A bill to legalize bouts of more than ten rounds in Illinois was drawn and rushed to Governor Emmerson for approval before being submitted to the State legislature. And Madison Square Garden Corp. of Illinois signed up two bouts tentatively: Schmeling v. Stribling in Chicago...
...Houston, Tex., T. C. Grenshaw, 70, divorced by his wife after 27 years of marriage, brought suit against her new husband, Fred M. Terry, for 1) poisoning his former wife's mind ($25,000); 2) alienating her affections ($25,000); 3) corrupting her morals ($25,000); 4) destroying her innocence ($25,000); 5) causing her to break her marriage contract ($25,000); 6) mortification ($25,000); 7) loss of her society ($25,000); 8) loss of right to censure her actions...
...that was not all his team had to do. The scoreless tie played in the mud gave Duke the State championship, since North Carolina had been beaten by Davidson. Although outrushed by eleven first downs to seven, a Tom-Thumb team from Rice amazed a crowd in Houston, Tex., by trimming Iowa State 13 to 7. Carnegie Tech's passes-McCurdy to Kavel-brought two touchdowns, and McCurdy intercepted a Washington & Jefferson pass and ran it over. Carnegie Tech 26, Washington & Jefferson...