:54:05
As she grew...
:54:08
Rose read the same books
the Judge had read.
:54:14
I think she thought of him...
:54:16
the same as one
of them ancient Roman gods.
:54:26
Looking back...
:54:28
we had in the person of Teddy Roosevelt...
:54:31
the finest President
in the history of this country.
:54:36
He had the spirit and determination
that matched the times and the land.
:54:44
Then the women got the vote,
and everything went to hell.
:54:48
While our boys was overseas
fighting the Kaiser...
:54:52
the women got Prohibition put in.
:54:55
Drinking and gambling and whoring
were declared unlawful.
:54:59
All those things which come natural
to men became crimes.
:55:04
They went right on doing them, of course.
But in hiding.
:55:09
And as if things weren't bad enough...
:55:12
oil was discovered in west Texas.
:55:33
Hoodlums came crawling
out of the woodwork.
:55:37
Politicians and crime lords
were bedfellows...
:55:42
and cops became pimps.
:55:45
It was a generation of vipers.
:55:49
Gass became the oil-richest man in Texas.
:55:54
He hired killers and thugs
from the East to run things...
:55:59
and kept order with his special police.