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Background: Born at Randolph, Tenn. on July 28, 1893, the son of a timber contractor. His mother died when he was young, and he spent most of his early years on his grandfather's farm in western Tennessee. Educated at the University of Arkansas and Hendrix College in Conway, Ark. (B.A. 1918). Served overseas in World War I as an Army Medical Corpsman. After studying in Scotland at the University of Aberdeen, received a Bachelor of Divinity degree from Southern Methodist University in 1921, later got his first D.D. (honoris causa) at Hendrix...
Easy Work. Wildcatting for oil, Jacobsen likes to say, is the easiest thing in the world: "You can make millions and millions. All you need is a checkbook-and money in the bank. You can get a competent drilling contractor to do all the work for you and you wouldn't even have to go near the place you were drilling. All you'd have to do is pick the place to drill...
...Maryland, Representative J. Glenn Beall scored a surprise victory for the seat vacated by Democratic Senator Herbert R. O'Conor. Beall beat George P. Mahoney, a popular Baltimore contractor...
...Democratic senatorial primary last spring, Pollack committed his fourth district to Lansdale Sasscer. When Paving Contractor George P. Mahoney entered the race, Pollack decided he liked George better. He held to his promise to deliver the fourth for Sasscer, but switched the fifth and sixth to Mahoney. Mahoney won. Infuriated, Sasscer and his friends prevented Pollack from becoming a delegate to the National Convention...
When he was just 14, Harrison's mother died, and his father grieved himself to pieces. Harrison quit school and pestered a local contractor for a job. "Son," the contractor told him, "you're a damn fool to go into building. Go into farming, that's where the money is." Nevertheless, he took Harrison on as an office boy, and later even let him diagram some stone designs. Harrison soon noticed something about the contracting business: the contractor took his orders from the architect. That decided him: he would be an architect...