Word: tex
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Antonio, Tex...
...began agitating a city-wide strike. Leaping the Mississippi River the infection struck Wisconsin, where 2,000 plumbing fixture workers in the model factory town of Kohler paraded with flags and pictures of President Roosevelt, demanded more pay, shorter hours, union recognition. Swinging South, strike trouble enveloped Houston, Tex., when a stevedore strike cost the lives of three Negroes...
Virtually the same condition occurred last week at Quanah, Tex. (110°); Phoenix, Ariz. (116°); Hays, Kans. (117°); Belleville, Kans. (119°); Emporia, Kans. (112°). Over a vast area including Nebraska, Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma and Arkansas the daytime temperature did not fall below 100?...
...Ornery Man" column in the late Frederick Gilmer Bonfils' Denver Post, onetime editor of The Great Divide, weekly affiliate of the Post; of heart disease; in Denver. In Alaska, in 1900, he founded the Ornery and Worthless Men's Club of America. Among members were the late Tex Rickard, Senator Pittman of Nevada, Vice President Garner, Senator Huey Long, the late Governor Rolph of California, all members of the Anti-Saloon League. A close friend of Bonfils, Hoggatt used to amuse him by turning somersaults, slipping his false teeth through his lips and barking like...
Meanwhile on the West Coast berth-plane service was inaugurated three months ago by American Airlines between Los Angeles and Dallas, Tex. Always more progressive in accepting what seems new, the West furnished American Airlines' sleepers with many a capacity load. Encouraged by its success, American Airlines last week inaugurated sleeper service on its six-hour New York-Chicago night run. using 160 m.p.h. Curtiss Condors with twelve berths, upper & lower. The same length as Pullman berths but nine inches narrower, the aerial berths are convertible by day into roomy club chairs...