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...story of 1836 was the revolt of Texas against Mexico. Tale of the Alamo made tragic news in the U. S. in early March. "The battle was desperate until daylight," reported the New Orleans True American, "when only seven men belonging to the Texan garrison were found alive, who cried for quarter, but were told that there was none for them. They then continued fighting until the whole were butchered. . . . We regret to say that Colonel David Crockett was among the number slain...
...cheeked, bespectacled leader of the House Inflationists, had his own explanation for last week's gold shipments: It was all a plot by the "big bankers" to scare Congressional Inflationists, since issuance of printing press money would cause the bankers to lose "some prestige." But, cried the chubby Texan, "Any shell game does not go with...
Shortest term (two years) went to Ralph Waldo Morrison, Texan utilitarian, whom President Roosevelt sent to the London Economic Conference in 1933. He is a close friend of Vice President Garner, a generous contributor to the National Democratic Committee's campaign funds. A Missourian by birth, he spent his youth in South America, selling railroad equipment and adding machines. Later he was promoted and operated a tramp steamship line, finally became interested in Texas power companies. The system he built up was shrewdly sold to Samuel Insull before 1929. Today he owns hotels, ice companies, Mexican power companies, does...
...preferred to remain unmentioned in the program's "Who's Who" when she was given the part of the free-&- easy young woman's mother. The role is that of a Southern matron whose brain is as frivolous as her dress. It is superbly written, and Texan Douglass projects it magnificently. "Ah always was willowy," she reminds her sister, at a time when the chief topic of interest is her daughter's disappearance. "Every time Ah go downtown in Louis ville somebody says : 'There goes Mrs. Effie Rowley. Isn't she willowy...
Last week the Supreme Court might have mopped up all these subsidiary questions, the first two in acting on the case of Louisiana rice millers who obtained a temporary injunction against payment of processing taxes (TIME, Dec. 2), the third in deciding the case of a Texan who sued a railroad which refused to transport his cotton because the Bankhead Act's taxes had not been paid on the shipment...