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...lean faced Texan with a curious eye walked in and looked around It was his first visit. With a curious deference he was sharpening their pencils for the meeting of the Council of the League of Nations on September 4. Then he called on Sir Eric Drummond the Secretary General of The League and was courteously recieved...
...right in Southern States is a matter for his own conscience to decide after due consideration of the circumstances. For Texas it has been decided, first in the state courts and, six months ago, in the Federal District Court, 'that the "primaries" are not elections, that, consequently, a Texan law of 1923, categorically forbidding any Negro to vote at a Democratic primary is constitutional. It became apparent last week, however, that these decisions are to be questioned...
There was the gentleman who lost his bag of laundry; the Texan, presumably he came from the Lone Star state, who never saw his .45 automatic again; and the scholar, too, who mislaid his brief case three days in succession, and each day found it waiting for him at the office...
...worry about moving. Texas was on the point of revolution. He attended the Convention of San Felipe in 1835 (where he was elected Commander-in-Chief of the Texan Army), and dominated it with his 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...
When it comes to the greatest thrill of his life this long Texan adventurer turns to a Columbia class rush in which his son was taking part! After this one is not surprised when he concludes by saying that if his boy became an "aimless wanderer over and under the world" he would "nail his shoes to the floor". Like others who have sailed toward the horizon for romance and adventure he has ended by finding them in his own land, and even worse--in New York...