Word: galveston
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which like a dethroned monarch of agriculture forever conspired to rule again grew in its inexhaustible luxuriance-over the eight States south of the Ohio and the James; east of the shallow, wandering Brazos that flows from dusty New Mexico to the grey waters of the Gulf near Galveston Bay. In little patches hanging on the hillsides of Tennessee; in the red soil of Georgia; in big plantations along the Black Warrior and Coosa in Alabama, in poverty-stricken tenant farms and rundown sharecropping holdings, in syndicate-owned plantations bigger than collective farms, in 25,000,000 acres...
Trouncing big Standard Oil of New Jersey, Socony-Vacuum and three smaller companies with tanker fleets was the task taken on by National Maritime Union's tough, rock-fisted President Joe Curran. From Galveston to Portland his pickets patrolled the docks, laid up 75 slick, oil-toting tubs. Purpose: to persuade the lines to increase wages and prefer union men for jobs. Because 14 other companies were willing to dicker, their tankers continued to run without hindrance and the Atlantic Seaboard faced no oil shortage comparable to that threatening in coal (see p. 18). For most people, a surprising...
Then the Narcotics division announced some facts: Tom Pendergast's town traded in $12,000,000 worth of narcotics a year, served a vast territory. Most surprising fact: that healthy, husky Texas is a dopey State. Rated next to Kansas City as consuming centres were Galveston, Fort Worth, Dallas, Houston. Nor is this because of the Mexican population. Texas has oil. Prostitutes follow oil workers. Dope goes with prostitutes. Most Texas addicts are Anglo-Saxons, some are children...
...Galveston, Texas, G. Martini, assistant manager of a cinema theatre, was on his way to deposit the day's box-office receipts of You Can't Take It With You. In the lobby of the bank a bandit held up Manager Martini, took it with...
Born an orthodox Jew in England, converted to reform Judaism in the U. S., Rabbi Henry Cohen passed his 75th birthday last month. Next month he will become the first U. S. rabbi to have served one Jewish congregation - Galveston's Temple B'nai Israel-for 50 years. Last week in Galveston four judges, Christian churchmen including a Catholic bishop, and 2,500 other people gathered to do honor to the South's greatest rabbi. Said Judge Joseph C. Hutcheson: "Henry Cohen is not merely our friend. In his humanness, he is a symbol of that democracy...