When Reba Jimmie Octa Belt Griffin was born on 24 July 1892, in Navarro, Texas, United States, her father, James Lewis Belt, was 33 and her mother, Frances Ann Woodard, was 29. She had at least 2 sons with William Charles Griffin. She lived in Olustee, Jackson, Oklahoma, United States in 1910 and Justice Precinct 1, Potter, Texas, United States in 1940. She died on 4 November 1960, in Amarillo, Potter, Texas, United States, at the age of 68, and was buried in Lockney, Floyd, Texas, United States.
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Under the direction of Governor Jim Hogg, Texas filed a lawsuit against John D. Rockefeller for violating state monopoly laws. Hogg argued that Standard Oil Company and Water-Piece Oil Company of Missouri were engaged in illegal practices like price fixing, rebates, and consolidation. Rockefeller was indicted, but never tried in a court of law; other employees of his company were convicted as guilty.
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
Being modeled after the Boy Scout Association in England, The Boy Scouts of America is a program for young teens to learn traits, life and social skills, and many other things to remind the public about the general act of service and kindness to others.
English and North German: metonymic occupational name for a leather belt or strap maker or a nickname for someone who wore a distinctive belt, from Middle English belt ‘belt, girdle’ (Old English belt), Middle Low German balt.
German: from a short form of the ancient Germanic personal name Baldher (see Belter ).
North German: habitational name from a place called Beelte (see Belter 2).
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