Word: tex
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unaware that Waters-Pierce Oil Co., from which he borrowed $3,300, was still controlled by the Standard Oil Trust. Exonerated, Texas' Bailey returned to the Senate, resigned in 1913, stayed out of politics until 1920 when he ran unsuccessfully for Governor. He died in a Sherman, Tex. courtroom...
...sociologists made an exhaustive survey of tourist camps near Dallas, Tex., discovered that nearly 75% of the patrons were not tourists at all, but local couples who used the cabins few about an hour. Many proprietors admitted that "couple trade" was the foundation of their business. Some even admitted discouraging legitimate tourists because they stayed all night, brought less revenue than local lovers. In one camp, a series of "couples" rented one cabin 16 times in one night. In ten weeks, one camp was patronized by 254 "couples," 109 of whom came from Dallas. Only seven gave their right names...
Bystanders at Fort Worth, Tex. were amused to see tough-writing, big-game-hunting Author Ernest Hemingway, on his way by motor to the Pacific coast to fish, carrying a cage containing a mouse...
Married. Maxine Rickard, 32, widow of Fight Promoter George L. ("Tex") Rickard; and Thomas Aloysius Gill, 39, Chicago stockbroker; in Chicago...
...gunman, Bass did not amount to much. His great claim to fame lay in his having taken a minor part in a train robbery at Big Springs, Neb. in 1877, and getting one-sixth of the $60,000 loot. He then led a gang, operating out of Denton, Tex. that held up four trains in a few weeks. The biggest haul, however, was only $1,280, to be divided among four men. Bass dodged Rangers and posses for a year, was betrayed by a spy in his gang, pinked while preparing to rob a bank at Round Rock...