Word: tex
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dallas girl whose maiden name was Bonnie Parker. Her distinguishing characteristics were a lightning trigger finger, a fondness for cigars, and a heart bearing the name "Roy" tattooed on her thigh. Roy Thornton was the name of her husband, but since he began serving a long sentence at Houston, Tex., her companion has been the other person for whom Captain Hamer was looking-Clyde Barrow. Clyde Barrow's youth in Dallas was devoted to stealing automobiles. In 1930 he was sent to prison, paroled in February 1932. Thereafter he still stuck to petty thievery, never got more than...
When Baritone John Charles Thomas skipped a concert in Dallas, Tex., rather than sacrifice his fee, hot arguments arose all over the U. S. concerning an artist's unwritten obligations (TIME, Jan. 22). Texans called Thomas a poor sport, sympathized with Manager Harriet Bacon MacDonald who had been unable to meet her contract. After the Thomas episode Soprano Rosa Ponselle and Contralto Sigrid Onegin refused to go to Dallas...
Last week President Roosevelt at the age of 52 became a grandfather for the fifth time, when a 6 lb. 6 oz. girl was born in a Fort Worth, Tex. hospital. The baby's parents: Second Son Elliott and his second wife Ruth Googins, who were married last July, five days after Elliott had divorced Elizabeth Donner Roosevelt at Minden, Nev. (TIME, July 31) The baby's name: Ruth Chandler Roosevelt, picked by her mother before she was born. Said Grandmother Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt: "Of course I'm thrilled to have another granddaughter, and awfully glad...
Born. To Mrs. Ruth Googins Roosevelt, wife of President Roosevelt's son Elliott; a daughter; in Fort Worth, Tex...
...shrewd promoter looking for speculative cattle lands. Then and there they became fast friends. Colonel Hammond stayed in the Army, serving in most of the important South American legations, later becoming identified with oil, railroads & banking. The promoter got into the prizefight business and made the name of Tex Rickard one of the most spectacular in a spectacular era. Colonel Hammond in 1923 helped Rickard raise the $7,000,000 necessary to move Madison Square Garden away from Madison Square and house it 25 blocks uptown in an arena the like of which had never been seen before. Rickard died...