Colorado City, Texas
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Colorado City is a city in and the county seat of Mitchell County, Texas, United States. Its population was 3,991 at the 2020 census.
Downtown Colorado City
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Martin Dies Jr.
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Martin Dies Jr., also known as Martin Dies Sr., was a Texas politician and a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives. He was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-second and aft
Colorado City, Texas
…Dick Compton, played for the Detroit Lions, Houston Oilers, and the Pittsburgh Steelers, graduated from Colorado High School Martin Dies Jr., U.S. Congressman, was born in Colorado City Margaret Formby is the founder of the National Cowgirl Hall of Fame in Fort Worth…
Dies relaxes as he speaks to reporters (November 7, 1938)
Dies receives "Heil Hitler" from first witness John Metcalfe, former Chicago reporter, then committee investigator who infiltrated Nazis under name Hellmut Oberwinder (August 12, 1938)
Dies speaks with fellow committee member J. Parnell Thomas, who had recently sponsored a bill of impeachment against Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins, to discuss forthcoming testimony of Felix McWhirter (May 23, 1939)
Actress Florence Eldridge, actor Fredric March, and Martin Dies Jr. at Dies Committee hearings in Los Angeles (1940)