Word: texarkanas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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COLLINS HAS SPENT the last sixteen months in the federal penitentiary in Texarkana, Texas. Convicted of five concurrent maximum sentences of five years and a $2,000 fine on November...
Torn Cloth. To Joplin, who was obsessed with opera, Treemonisha's failure meant the failure of his whole life. Born in 1868 in Texarkana, Texas, the son of an ex-slave, Joplin discovered the piano at age seven. His self-taught playing and improvising attracted so much attention that a local piano teacher waived his usual fees and took the prodigy in hand. After Joplin's mother died, the youngster had a falling out with his father and at 14 left home to take up the life of a honky-tonk pianist. He wandered to St. Louis, Chicago...
Many Congressmen and Senators questioned whether the Government ought to come to the aid of any private company-large or small-with a record of sloppy management. The hardest blows were struck by Wright Patman, chairman of the House Banking Committee. A Texarkana Populist who detests both big city banks and railroads, Patman attacked the legality of the Administration's plan to guarantee the loans under the Defense Production...
...rural America where Patman has his roots. He was born in Patman's Switch,* Texas, the son of a struggling farmer. He earned enough money as a sharecropper and insurance salesman to take a law degree at Tennessee's Cumberland University. As district attorney in Texarkana, his present home, he so energetically attacked vice and gambling during the 1920s that a squad of Texas Rangers was sent to protect him from underworld assassins...
...office seven days a week, puts in ten hours each weekday. Despite his reputation for vituperative oratory, Patman in person seems more like a grandfatherly American archetype: Baptist, Mason, Elk, Shriner, Eagle and American Legionnaire (all of which he is). Briefly a widower, Patman two years ago married a Texarkana widow in her 70s, whom he had dated as a teenager. People who know him only from bombastic broadsides are often surprised at his cherubic smile, soft voice and gentle blue eyes...