Word: alamo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nominate the Mayor of Warsaw for your Man of the Year, even if the award must be made posthumously. His radio appeals rank second only to Colonel Travis' letters from the Alamo in 1836, and his fate, no doubt, will be the same...
Clara Driscoll, 58, is the restless, magnetic daughter of a pioneer Texas land baron who left an estate now valued at $10,000,000. She is president of one Corpus Christi bank, largest stockholder of another. She is known as "The Savior of the Alamo" because she once put up $65,000 (later repaid by the State) to keep commercial structures away from Texas' shrine. By the time she married Newspaperman Hal Sevier in 1906, Clara Driscoll had written two novels (The Girl of La Gloria, In the Shadow of the Alamo) and a musical comedy (Mexicana)* which...
...Daniel used to plug sales of "Light Crust Flour" with a "hillbilly band" over a Texas network. A persuasive announcer and able musician, Salesman O'Daniel popularized not only his company's flour but songs of his own, Beautiful Texas and Sons of the Alamo. Four years ago he formed his own Hillbilly Flour Co., made a half-million dollars, got elected president of the Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce. He and his hillbillies stayed...
...Shed your last drop of blood, fulfilling your sacred duty for the glory of the Chinese race, the Chinese Republic and the Chinese Revolutionary Army!" ordered General Sun in a message to the defenders of the Chinese Alamo. "I and your comrades salute you! Although, in accordance with orders, I have led my other men to new defense lines my spirit and my heart are with you in Chapei...
...might mean more to staggering China than the Nine-Power Conference which meets at Brussels next week. Japan last week refused to attend, and so did Germany. Japanese took the conduct of General Telfer-Smollett as proving this up to the hilt, claimed to have found in the captured Alamo quantities of "fresh food which could only have been smuggled in from the British." Vice Admiral Kiyoshi Hasegawa this week was so boiling mad on his flagship at Shanghai that when a British soldier was reported to have touched a machine gun on a Japanese river launch, the Admiral reported...