Word: waco
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...black suit, broad black hat and flowing black Windsor tie), a prodigious writer, talker, fighter and drinker, Pitchfork Smith worshipped at the shrine of one man and one man only: William Cowper Brann (the Iconoclast). Once, on Brann's birthday, his disciple got drunk, visited his grave at Waco, and sat there all night communing with the soul of his friend, for every drink he took himself pouring an equal amount of whiskey...
...following received appointments in Engineering School: Walter J. Cunningham of Waco, Texas...
Midway between society and self-improvement are groups like Our Reading Club of San Antonio (&Oldest in Texas/' a claim bitterly disputed by the Browning Club of Waco), which meets in an arty, 102-year-old Mexican hut to read carefully prepared papers on subjects like &Art in Literature.& In the same category belong Nashville's Friday Morning Literary Club, which began as the Tea and Repartee Club 43 years ago, San Francisco's Cap and Bells (200 members) which assembles in the swank Fairmont Hotel...
...stations owned by Publisher Hearst, within the last six months KEHE (Los Angeles), KTSA (San Antonio), WACO (Waco), KNOW (Austin), WINS (Manhattan) have been sold, subject to FCC approval. KYA (San Francisco), KOMA (Oklahoma City), WISN (Milwaukee) are reported for sale. Remaining Hearst stations are WCAE (Pittsburgh), WBAL (Baltimore...
...Texas stations which Broadcaster Roosevelt has now gathered into his network include his wife's KFJZ, Hearst Radio's KNOW (Austin), WACO (Waco). MBS emphasized the business aspects of the affiliation, explained that the Chicago Tribune's anti-New Deal opinions were irrelevant in matters of network operations...