Word: tex
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Proudest boast of Crystal City, Tex. (pop. 6,609) is spinach. Last week, as part of the State's centennial celebration, Crystal City climaxed its pageant depicting "Texas under Six Flags" by ceremoniously enthroning its dark, pert Virginia Speedy, proclaiming her Queen of Spinach. Claiming to be roughage capital of the world, Crystal City last fortnight shipped 206 carloads of spinach, a record for the season...
...consuming desire to be a cinema star. Last summer at the neat Henie country place just outside Oslo, she discussed with her parents her longtime ambition. They heartily approved the idea. Wary of professional managers, including Sonja's faithful swain, 40 year-old Promoter Jefferson Davis ("Tex Rickard of Europe") Dickson, they made contact with a longtime friend named Dennis Scanlon. Mr. Scanlon, who runs a surgical-instrument factory in Sweden but lives in Manhattan, promptly set to work to ballyhoo Sonja to Hollywood by way of a U.S. skating tour...
Born. To Arthur Brisbane, 71, Hearst editor & pundit, famed booster of marriages & babies; his first grandchild, son of John H. Reagan ("Tex") McCrary and Sarah Brisbane McCrary; in Manhattan. Name: Michael. Weight...
Republican winner of the Presidential popularity contest prize: Colonel Franklin Knox of Chicago, who lived in New Hampshire for 15 years and who still owns its largest papers, the Manchester Union and Leader. Two Landon men al o ran. In Dallas, Tex., Candidate Knox declared: "At the present time the contest lies between Governor Landon of Kansas and me. We are much alike in viewpoint on issues and agreed that no factional quarrels shall shake party harmony...
...Nine in United Airlines' crash at Cheyenne (TIME, Oct. 14), two in Delta Airlines' crash at Gilmer, Tex...