Word: tex
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heavy, slit-eyed man with an unshaven, greenish face got out of a plane one afternoon last week at the San Antonio, Tex. airport. Behind him trailed five swarthy followers only slightly less formidable-looking. The first man was Mexico's onetime President and longtime Boss Plutarco Elías Calles, who had just been forcibly exiled from Mexico by President Lázaro Cárdenas. Sick, sleepless and broken, the 58-year-old exile turned on newshawks an impressively bitter face...
History has been in the making at University Hall for the past few days ever since John Simoneau, New Hampshire soft drink tycoon whose personality may be described as a combination of Florenz Ziegfeld, Jacob Ruppert, Jack Benny, Paul Harris, and Tex Rickard, has been making his presence felt in no uncertain manner...
...replied: "Dr. Cook has as much right to state he reached the North Pole as Peary." Amundsen declined to amplify his statement. As far as I know that was the last public statement on that question made by Amundsen. Two years later I interviewed him again in Wichita Falls, Tex. I asked him again to amplify his Fort Worth statement. He stated: "I got in enough 'hot water' over that Fort Worth statement. I'm not going to say anything more about the Cook-Peary claims to the 'North Pole." In what kind of "hot water...
...Santa Fe's new track will run in miles between Boise City, Okla. and Las Animas, Colo. At an estimated cost of $3,750,000, it will complete a 232-mile line between Las Animas and Amarillo, Tex. which was originally approved by the Interstate Commerce Commission in 1930 and completed as far as Boise City- 121 miles-in 1931. Thus after five years the Santa Fe will soon succeed in connecting Denver with western Texas by a direct route saving as much as 226 miles on traffic north & south...
Died. Hazel B. Stokes, 26. sister of Texas' Governor James V. ("Jimmie") Allred; in Mineola, Tex., when her husband's automobile collided with a truck...