Word: tex
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Austin College (Sherman, Tex...
Jefferson Davis Dickson, 36, was left in Paris by the American Expeditionary Force, so he began promoting prizefights in a small way. He discovered Primo Camera, became a millionaire (in francs), is now impresario of the big Palais des Sports, the Tex Rickard of Paris. Last week he also had several truckloads of sand, a six-wheeled motor truck, a dozen unemployed Montmartre musicians, six chorus men, 100 lions. With these he staged a lion hunt. The black musicians brandished spears, whooped. The truck chug-chugged, blew up clouds of sand. The musicomedy lion-hunters fired many a blank cartridge...
Near San Benito, Tex., a posse set bloodhounds on the trail of a band of thieves. When the bloodhounds bounded up, the thieves caught them, tied them together by their collars, hung them over a limb. The pursuing posse took down the sad-faced dogs, again sicked them on the trail. This time the thieves shot the bloodhounds...
...Gates of the University of Pennsylvania, onetime Morgan partner, was chairman of the board's executive committee; President Stanley King of Amherst was a member of the board, as were President Walter Lee Lingle of Davidson College (N. C.) and President-elect Pat Morris Neff of Baylor University (Tex...
Baylor College for Women (Belton, Tex.) Mrs. Willie Graves White, Daughter of Baylor University's first president, Henry Lee Graves Honorary...