Bears, Beeves, and Bibles: A Depression Story (open access)

Bears, Beeves, and Bibles: A Depression Story

Research paper written for a history class at Marfa High School about the Great Depression and, specifically, how if affected the town of Marfa, Texas. This paper reconstructs the Depression using individual accounts: working several odd jobs to earn money, pawning and trading items to pay for food, baking chocolate cakes in exchange for fence posts to repair a broken fence line, etc.
Date: November 7, 1975
Creator: Earney, Ann
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: H-1086 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: H-1086

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, John L. Hill, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification; Whether a county can reject a low bid on the sole ground that the bidder is not a resident of the country.
Date: November 7, 1977
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: M-1260 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: M-1260

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Crawford Martin, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether the Commissioners Court of Rockwall County may call an election for voters of the county to determine whether to separate the office of sheriff, tax assessor and collector into two separate and different offices, and related questions.
Date: November 7, 1972
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: H-444 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: H-444

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, John L. Hill, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification; Disposition of income generated by agricultural operations of Department of Corrections.
Date: November 7, 1974
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: H-445 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: H-445

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, John L. Hill, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification; Financing of addition to hospital conveyed to county and leased back to original owners.
Date: November 7, 1974
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Will American Abandon Isreal (open access)

Will American Abandon Isreal

Text of a speech by Barbara Jordan at the testimonial dinner of Leon and Peggy Samet at Kfar Silver School in Houston, Texas. She discusses America's relationship with Israel and repudiates the idea that Zionism is racist. Handwritten edits appear across the document.
Date: November 7, 1976
Creator: Jordan, Barbara, 1936-1996
System: The Portal to Texas History
Will America Abandon Israel (open access)

Will America Abandon Israel

Text of speech by Barbara Jordan regarding the United States' support of Israel and decrying the United Nations declaring Zionism to be a form of racism.
Date: November 7, 1976
Creator: Jordan, Barbara, 1936-1996
System: The Portal to Texas History