Word: jacinto
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...unless Mrs. Ferguson's husband-manager could establish his loud charges of poll frauds. In Texas, Democratic nomination equals virtual election. Under the terms of a wager* Governess Ferguson was honor-bound to resign her executive position immediately. The lone-star state, state of the Alamo, of San Jacinto, of hard boiled sandslappers† and silken-tongued two-gun men, will now be governed by a onetime Sunday School teacher...
...first production of "The School of Princesses" given last night by the Idler Club of Radcliffe at the Agassiz Theatre, nine Harvard men took part. The play is a drama by the Spanish playwright, Jacinto Benavento. Two more performances will be given today, one at 2.15 and another at 8.15 o'clock, both in the Agassiz Theatre...
...eloquence. Word came that Santa Anna, the Mexican General, had invested the Alamo. In an hour, Sam Houston was leading a force to relieve the fort; but before he could do so it had fallen and its garrison had been massacred. But he met the Mexican Army at San Jacinto, routed it and took Santa Anna prisoner. Before the captive, Houston took a gnawed ear of corn from his pocket, saying: "Sir, do you ever expect to conquer men who fight for freedom, when their General can march four days with one ear of corn for his rations...
...Jacinto," as they called him, advanced from Commander-in-Chief of the Texas army to President of the Republic of Texas. After Texas was admitted to the Union, in 1845, he was sent to Washington as Senator. There he went, moving once more, but going with his tiger- skin vest, his shoulder blanket and his sombrero. He would sit in the Senate all day whittling sticks, occasionally rising to deliver an oration. In his bedroom at the hotel, he hung signs saying, "My bedtime is nine o'clock...
...Lovett has been one of the leading railroad managers in the history of the business, and has been active in railroad work for 40 years. He was born at San Jacinto, Tex., in 1860 and was admitted to the Texas bar at 22. In 1884 he first undertook railroad legal work. In 1892 he became general attorney and counsel for all the Southern Pacific lines in Texas. For many years subsequently he was the right-hand man of the late E. H. Harriman, as general counsel for the U. P. S. P., and other " Harriman roads." From Sept...