Word: tex
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cigar-smoking mistress Bonnie Parker (TIME, June 4) sprang from roots deeply embedded in the darkest social soil. Loudly has the Department of Justice proclaimed its purpose not only to cut down the weeds but also to dig up their roots. Therefore last week a Federal jury in Dallas, Tex. convicted 15 grubby persons who had nourished and protected Bandits Barrow & Parker. Five others had already pleaded guilty. Given sentences ranging from one hour to two years were Bonnie Parker's mother and sister; Barrow's mother, a sister, a brother, a brother-in-law and two sisters...
...teeth," shouted the liberals. By way of teeth they proposed an amendment guaranteeing legal aid to embattled liberal teachers. Superintendent J. Chester Cochran of San Antonio, Tex., spoke for the Committee: "We all believe in freedom of the Press, freedom of speech and all that sort of thing. But we don't feel that it is our business to fight anybody's private war. It's just a fight between the Hearst papers and the Columbia University group." The superintendents voted down the amendment, adopted the original resolution...
...occupation by Mexicans of a few U. S.-owned ranches. There remain for Ambassador Castillo Najera the trifling matters of dividing the waters of the lower Rio Grande and Colorado Rivers, of keeping sewage out of the Tia Juana River, of settling the Chamizal boundary dispute at El Paso, Tex., of negotiating a trade treaty...
...colleges, prisons, clubs, fraternal lodges as well as on legitimate stages. Biggest house played was the Shriners Auditorium (4,000 seats) in Des Moines in 1932, where also the biggest day's receipts ($11,000) were taken in. Smallest day's business ($600) was at Big Spring, Tex. Smallest theatre encountered (900 seats) was in La Crosse, Wis. But plenty of stages were so tiny that the stage hands had to stand behind the flats to hold them up. The only time the show did not actually go on in all its five years was at Memphis...
...Houston, Tex...