Word: tex
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...knows where rodeos started. Prescott, Ariz. held a championship cowboy contest on July 4, 1888. Pecos City, Tex., claims to have had an earlier one. Cheyenne's Frontier Days fiesta, though it has since become better known than Prescott's, started nine years later. Long before any of these, rodeos were part of fiestas in Mexico. There are now over 400 places in the U. S. which hold annual rodeos. Most famed are Cheyenne Frontier Days, the Pendleton Roundup, the Calgary Stampede, Fort Worth Rodeo, the Cowboys' Reunion at Las Vegas, N. Mex. Originally, rodeo events, like...
...Johnson Peyton Barnes of Houston and Dr. John Bryan Rushing of Hemphill, Tex., who together invented the urinalayzer, hope to install duplicates in washrooms throughout the nation...
...estimate of the quality of Mexican education was given in El Paso. Tex. last week by Rev. Michael Kenny, Jesuit, one-time regent of Loyola University's Law School. Returned from an investigation tour, he reported on Mexican sex education with special reference to the State of Tabasco, whose Governor is named Canabal. In Tabasco, according to Father Kenny, children are caused to learn about sex by viewing the matings of dogs, horses, cattle. In one case a bull was labeled "God," a cow "Virgin Mary." Said he: "Primary grade pupils in Tabasco were forced to strip naked, boys...
...began, how 1,000 Juvenile Delinquents got that way. In a third fine fat book they now tell why 500 Delinquent Women went wrong.* The publication closely follows conventions last week of the American Prison Association, the American Parole Association and the National Conference of Juvenile Agencies in Houston, Tex. For many of the jailers and reformers there the texts of the Gluecks are so much gospel...
...August Busch managed to pay small dividends pretty regularly through the dry years by making near-beer, yeast, malt and corn syrups, truck bodies, cabinets, Bevo, ice-cream, ginger ale, Diesel engines for U. S. submarines. Other interests include a local coal company, the Hotel Adolphus in Dallas, Tex. and the tiny St. Louis & O'Fallon Ry. whose valuation case in the Supreme Court made railroad history. August Busch died by his own hand two months after Repeal (TIME, Feb. 19). Adolphus Busch III is now head of the House...