Word: tex
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Plainview, Tex. was credited with evolving the whole thing beneath his pearl grey ten-gallon hat. A tall, loose-jointed, deep-drawling farmer of 46, Cliff Day has a wife, six children and a 320-acre farm which has been judged "best-balanced" in the State. When AAA came along, Cliff Day was made Chairman of the State Cotton Advisory Board and Hale County...
...Carthage, Tex., close to the Louisiana State line, Henry Walton, big black buck, began to dote on the philosophy of Huey Long. Last week he got a pistol, used it to knock a storekeeper over the head, helped himself to the trade goods, conducted a brief reign of terror. Then he fled across the Sabine River. When pursuers arrived on the opposite bank, he shouted: "Stay on your side of the Sabine! Me and Huey Long is running this side." The constable of the Carthaginians, who had no wish to share their wealth, knelt down and drilled Henry Walton through...
...wanted to know, was a 32-year-old pipe salesman who had made his comeback in peaches going to do with a company like Missouri-Kansas? The answer was simple, said Frank Parish. He was going to build the second longest gas pipe line in North America, from Amarillo, Tex. to Indiana 930 mi. away...
...Houston, Tex., the Press found a 1924 marriage license obtained but never used by Actress Mae West and a local theatre pressagent named Burmeister. Mae West, infuriated: "This thing is going too far. That makes nine guys this year that I've been married to. It's a lousy publicity gag, and I'm not getting anything...
...Texarkana, Tex., in 1912, Charles Settle's Leghorn hen laid torpedo-shaped eggs that tapered at both ends. On the basis of that hint he went on record as predicting a world war in two years. Last week one of Settle's Minorca hens laid torpedo-shaped eggs. Said Farmer Settle: "If another war doesn't break out within two years then my hen doesn't know her business...