Word: hogg
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...land for the park was sold to the city in the 1920s and 1930s by the estate of former Texas Governor James S. Hogg. There was one proviso: if the land was ever used for other than "park purposes," it would revert to the estate. To sidestep that restriction, the Governor's daughter, Ima Hogg, signed over the estate's drilling rights shortly before her death last year to an old friend, George R. Brown, president of Brownco Inc., a Houston-based drilling company...
...have made the oil industry, and Houston, for that matter, what it is today. The company would sink exploratory wells at its own risk and turn over a royalty payment of up to 35% of the value of any strike, to be divided equally between the city and the Hogg estate. If, as the city fathers hope, there is oil and gas in the ground worth $50-$60 million, Houston would thus benefit from a large windfall. As Brownco and the city saw it, the exploratory wells could be drilled on a slant from the park's maintenance area...
Died. Ima Hogg, 93, spirited Houston oil heiress and arts patron whose benefactions to the Houston Symphony, which she helped to found in 1913 after abandoning a budding career as a concert pianist, and other cultural causes made her the doyenne of Lone Star society; of complications after a fall suffered while traveling in London...
...pamphleteer promptly ran off with 16-year-old Harriet Westbrook, daughter of a London tavernkeeper. With Harriet came an older sister, eager to protect this new family tie with the aristocracy, plus Thomas Jefferson Hogg, Shelley's best friend at Oxford. The odd ménage was shattered several years later when Shelley met Mary Godwin, daughter of the genteel radical, William Godwin. He eloped with her-and her stepsister, Claire Clairmont-generously inviting Harriet to join them as a "spiritual" sister. She refused. Shelley and his new entourage set out on years of restless travel, ending with...
...Connally in a formal reception in the ranch's high-ceilinged living room. The guest list was compiled from the very top of the Texas power pyramid: Dallas Billionaire H. Ross Perot, H.L. Hunt's son Nelson, John Murchison, former Dallas Mayor Erik Jonsson, Houston Millionairess Ima Hogg, construction Magnate George Brown and Fort Worth's Perry Bass, who helped hoist Connally to political power. Publicly, most of the guests were Democrats; in the eccentricities of Texas politics even the most hidebound conservatives pay lip service to traditional ties to the Democratic Party...