Word: texans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Three years ago the Kenedys and Klebergs agreed to let the road go through. Last week it was opened. Typically Texan was the celebration. Caravans arrived from San Antonio. Houston, Orange, Corpus Christi. Louisiana, Mexico and the Valley. There were 1,500 Boy Scouts on hand. In most of the Valley towns there were free lunches. Army bands. Variously they had a rodeo, a wild-animal act, performing elephants, sound trucks. A song. Along the Bay, was written for the occasion. There was a special Christmas vespers service...
Treasurer Kendrick tried again on two more days, got nothing but a few more fry-sized nibbles. An inquiry came from a Texan who said, "I love lawsuits," admitted he knew nothing about molybdenum. From Grand Junction, Colo, came a telegram bidding $15, from Manhattan one offering $100. A postcard bid from Utica, N. Y. forgot to mention any figure at all. Kendrick gave up, turned the tax-sale certificate over to the county. The county-Climax tax squabble was back where it started...
...conference, at week's end, lasted 50 minutes. From it the burly Texan Redhunter emerged still defiant, refusing to comment on the interview. Said Mr. Dies flatly: "I am going to do the job that Congress gave...
William T. Pheiffer, 42, Republican, of New York's famed Gashouse (16th) District, beat James H. Fay, New Dealer, who purged Old Dealer John J. O'Connor in 1938. Pheiffer and Republicans were stunned by his victory. Pheiffer was unknown, a Texan, a lawyer, a 21-month Republican resident of a sure Tammany district. It looked suspiciously as if Tammany, not liking New Dealer Fay, had decided to hand the district over for two years to a Republican...
...wrangling with the college trustees to the Governorship of New Jersey. For this, Wilson, afraid Harvey's Wall Street connections might injure his role of reformer in the eyes of the masses, soon kicked his backer downstairs. President Maker House was a soft-footed, soft-voiced, soft-eyed Texan who finessed Wilson into the White House. Later Wilson broke with...