Texas Regulars plotting to block Roosevelt in 1944 race
The Texas Regulars scheme to elect 23 electors in November pledged to a Democrat other than Roosevelt, aiming to deny a majority and push the election to the House. They foresee swapping votes in a Republican or Democratic House to name the president, with 1948 aims beyond.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas
Roosevelt
Dewey
House of Representatives
Dr. Gallup
House
Tom Dewey
Willkie
Rony to Speak at Knife-Fork Club in Amarillo Tomorrow
Knife and Fork Club in Amarillo heats up for a talk by George J. Rony at 8 pm in the Country Club. Tickets through tomorrow noon at Maxor Drug Fisk Building and Herbert Drug Amarillo Building. Rony, a wartime figure raised in Leningrad, promises vivid wartime insights and life and death struggles in Europe.
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Rony
Knife and Fork Club
Amarillo
George J. Rony
Ross Rogers
Ivor Davies
Maxor Drug
Fisk
Herbert Drug
George Rong
Leningrad
Europe
Clothing Clinic Set Tomorrow at Junior High School
Under Mrs Grady Burch Amarillo schools home counselor a clothing clinic runs 8 30 to 10 30 am and 4 to 5 pm in Room 200 Elizabeth Nixon Junior High. The service runs through Nov 15 and will be held weekly each Wednesday morning and afternoon all year with later clinics planned in other homemaking departments to assist Amarillo women with cutting fitting and alterations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grady Burch
Amarillo
Elizabeth Nixson
Classified notices and sale items in Globe-News
A dense classifieds collection lists rental offers and sales including a cheap furnished ee house at 2603 Buchanan, a 35 Oldsmobile in good condition, and a 1303 E 12th listing. Missing keys, a brown coin purse, and a Brown Olds Cornet are among lost items with contact notes. Also many notices for barber work, dental office help, various furniture pieces, a Chevy pickup, a stray Jersey steer, and a 5 room furnished house for sale with yard and stove details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oldsmobile
Globe-News
Star Barber Shop
Fisk
Lipscomb
Houston
Carolina
West 20Th
Paratrooper Robert Hester Wounded in Holland
Paratrooper Robert G. Hester was wounded in the feet in Holland and is back in England for medical care. His mother Mrs. Alice Hester of Cleveland Street received word from the War Department that he was slightly wounded on Sept 18.
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Robert G. Hester
Holland
England
Alice Hester
Cleveland Street
War Department
Hester
Normandy
Items that Served as Money Across History
The passage lists metals and commodities once used as barter or currency. It notes furs sheep skins cattle skulls grains tobacco olive oil and salt as historic forms of money. This overview highlights diverse enduring values across cultures and eras.
Amusement Calendar snippet with 1940s film list and venues
A fragmented 1940s amusement calendar lists multiple film titles and stars across venues such as Capitol Rialto Rex Victory Lyric Liberty and Night Clubs. It mentions actors like Katharine Hepburn Gene Autry Irene Dunne and Loretta Young plus acts at Old Tascola Rainbow Gardens Mexican Inn and more with brief descriptors of romance espionage and musical performances.
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Katharine Hepburn
Aline MacMahon
Akin Tertroff
Manhattan
Dennis Day
Anne Shirley
Leo Carillo
Capitol
White Cliffs of
Dover
Irene Dunne
Alan Marshall
Rialto
Susanna
Gene Ave Autry
Legion
Mr. Big
Donald O'Connor
Gloria Jean
Posey Ryan
Trail of the Lonesome Pine
Fred MacMurray
Sylvia Sidney
Henry Fonda
Basil Rathbone
Texas
Loretta Young
Kansan
Richard Dix
Jane Wyatt
Gioria Jean
Fay Helm
Liberty
Wild Bill Elliott
Robert Montgomery
THE
NAT
Frite Cowan
Dick Morton
Rainbow Gardens
Plainsmen
Mexican Inn
Nightclub listings and a curious Bible fact note
Tent Tuesday presents Maz Cooper and Moods in Muals at CLUB VICTORIA with Mitch Mitchell and his band. THE ATTAIN hosts Texan Bi iron and AVIATRIX nightly. Carlton Scales spins dance tapes. HEAVALON CLUB operates nightly except Sunday with Cares and his orchestra. A convict reports Bible totals: 3 566 489 letters, 772 692 words, 31 173 verses, 1 189 chapters, 66 books.
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Maz Cooper
Muals
I Peren Club
Victoria
Mitch Mitchell
Aviatrix
Carlton Scales
Heavalon Club
Her Cares
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Earl Davis Cor
Harrison
Studebaker
N. van Buren
Polk
ONE Star Motor CO
Tyler St
Olds
Geo. E. Evans
Fillmore
Nash Ambassador
Bob Crudgington
Davis Investment CO
Luther Hough
Broadmoor St
WTC
Auto Parts & Service
Perethreineachaennssonne Seivenaritedaneiercendteahane
NDE Aea Y Ae Sales N. Buch
Night Star
American Auto Wrecking CO
N. Fillmore
King Trailers & Auto Parts
Elmer Auto Supply
Cope & Henderson
Rees
Guymon
Okla
Fdr
Lewis Nordyke
Dewitt MacKenzie
Associated Press
Dumbarton Oaks
America
Russia
Britain
Churchill
League of Nations
Associated Nations
League
Mr. Rony
Siberia
Volga
Senate
Wilson
Uncle Sam
Buchanan
Rrone
Yee
Atau
Polk St
Lee A
Lyric Src
Gloria Jean—Fay Helm
Moonlight IN
Vermont
Robert Hester
Carlton
Aviatrix Club
Irene Dunn
Rob't. Heptgomery
Crowford
Lee Ly
Mayfair Club
Clarence
Jack” Jackson
Texas Blue Birds
Deace A
NMU Arma Cem Ea
Creer Eet Mic Ys
Pearl S. Buck
Dragon Seed
Akim Aurea
Sun
Tues
Wlth
Loretta
Young
Pia
Denn
Marsh
Riatto
Gene Autry
Smiley Burnett
Santa FE Railway
United States Employment Service
ORTO
Railroad Retirement Board
Eruna
Fritz Cowan
Siri
Club Victoria
Jimmy Murphy
Orchid Bloyse
Ruth Harbin
Wally Booker
Drs. Benson and Benson
Optometrists
R. J Benson
Frances Benson
Oliver Eakle
6Th & Polk
Vaughn Plumbing
Pierce
van Buren
Roy
Brocddus
Saratoga Cafe
Leon
Outlaw
Lyle Talbot
Helen Vinson
Kay Kyser
Joan Davis
Around the
Winter Quarters
Falla
Avalon Club
Fillmore and
Morningside
N. E
8Th Ave
Music IN
Toumanova
Gregory Peck
Alan Reed
the Plainsmen
KFDA
Ken Bishop M
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