F. of L. convention President Gompers said: “National Labor Day—It affords me pleasure to be able to report that the demand by the A. F. of L. for making the first Monday in Septemper [sic] of each year a legal holiday passed congress and was made a law on June 29,1894.” ...
Raoul Walsh was an American motion-picture director popular in the 1930s and 1940s for his tough, masculine films. (Read Martin Scorsese’s Britannica essay on film preservation.) As a young man, Walsh worked a variety of jobs in Mexico and Texas. His ac
Playas are ephemeral, depressional, recharge wetlands that occur primarily in the high plains (Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Colorado, and Kansas) but are particularly abundant in the Llano Estacado (Staked Plains) region (Figure 1). There are approximately 65,000 playas along the Great Plains...
FirstBank Southwest FirstBank SouthwestAmarillo, TexasAssets: $1.7 billionPresident and CEO: Andy MarshallNo. of U.S. employees: 231FirstBank Southwest gathers feedback from its staff members to gain a deeper understanding of their workplace experience. New hires are surveyed after 30 and 90 da...
Haley, Maria– FBI Release #2 – [6 Pages, 1.1MB]Maria Haley worked for Mr. Clinton when he was governor of Arkansas and when he was president — originally in the presidential personnel office and then, from 1994 to 1999, on the board of the Export-Import Bank of the United States....
“10s” is a perfect representation of the Texas heat where the band hails from, evoking the feeling of staring into the sun as it bathes the landscape in the same hue of the album’s cover. 65. Stone Temple Pilots, Core Atlantic 65. Stone Temple Pilots, 'Core' (Atlantic, 1992) With...
In the summer of 1999, sev- eral dozen Hispanics in the Dominguez prison near San Antonio, Texas, used everything from steel-toed boots to trash cans to attack a smaller number of black prisoners, whom they had man- aged to ambush during a lockdown. As a 19-year-old Hispanic part...
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is a product of the fabled Whippoorwill Wild Agin x Sparkles. This cross has produced countless champions, including National Champion Whippoorwill Justified, Champions Skyfall, Ransom, Whippoorwill Mayhem, Whippoorwill Forever Wild, Whippoorwill Blue Blood, and Texas Wild Agin. Shockwave was spotted at...
General Granger was assigned a difficult task that became worse for him after delivering the freedom message in Texas. According to historians, General Granger “became extremely unpopular among many whites in the state of Texas. He was blackballed and ostracized by many Whites, so much so, that...