Word: tex
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Representative Martin ( Kid Boots") Dies of Orange. Tex. opposed letting the President decide where and how all the "pork" should be distributed...
Sculptor Noguchi took his figure from a newsphotograph in The Labor Defender, official organ of the International Labor Defense, which showed the burning of the body of George Hughes, 41, at Sherman, Tex. in May 1930 (TIME, May 19, 1930). Negro Hughes had pleaded guilty to an attack upon a Mrs. Drew Farlow, a white farmer's wife. Infuriated Shermanites attacked and burned the courthouse with the result that Prisoner Hughes suffocated to death in a steel vault in the county clerk's office. From the vault his limp body was yanked out and paraded around town...
From the sidelines in San Antonio, Tex., a broadside called Frente á Frente ("Face to Face")* last week let loose an inkpot of rage against Boss Calles and his henchman Aaron Saenz, Governor of Mexico's Federal District. Its cover was a foot-and-a-half high cartoon of Calles as a redhanded, man-eating gorilla, slavering across a field of skulls (see cut). Its prose, however, was no match for this pictorial violence. One article printed in groping English described a government that could ban the word "God" from the textbooks as "such ossy, ossy, phally, prehistoric boneheads...
...Laredo, Tex., one Paul Max Neuhaus set out to win a $500 bet by knocking a golf ball to Rouses Point, N. Y. (3,000 mi.) in 160 days...
Married, Ernest Thompson Seton, 74, author, naturalist; and Mrs. Julia M. Buttree, 45, dean of the College of Indian Wisdom (Santa Fe) of which Mr. Seton is president; in El Paso, Tex. Last fortnight Mr. Seton was divorced by Mrs. Grace Gallatin Seton, whom he married...