Word: holman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thing several times before. Mrs. Charles Dana (Irene Langhorne) Gibson, who was present as a special sort of Tammany delegate, left nothing to chance, however, and made a statement to the press. It was after a visit paid by Mrs. Smith to Mrs. Woodrow Wilson at the Jesse Holman Joneses'. Said Mrs. Gibson, whose sister, as everyone knows, is Lady Astor: "You needn't worry about Mrs. Smith in the White House or anywhere else. "That's a great little lady. She has perfect poise, gentleness, kindliness of heart, all the really fine qualities which we women...
...Woodrow Wilson arrived regally and went to stay with the Jesse Holman Joneses in their bungalow atop Mr. Jones's new Lamar Hotel. So far as the convention was concerned, Mr. Jones, who arranged it all, was the most important man in town. A Mr. Smith, of course, was the most important man, not in town. William C. Hogg, whom oldtime Houstonians might call their first citizen and whose father was governor of Texas (1891-95), published a letter upbraiding Mr. Jones for "a consistent and calculating career of mendacity which would belittle even Jesse James, who was romantic...
...song was heard, last week, issuing from the capacious lungs of Jesse Holman Jones, 100 per cent Houstonian, who had dazzled the eyes of the Democratic Party to which he promised wealth unaccustomed and unhoped for, on the sole condition that the 1,089 delegates, together with their alternatives, wives and bosses, should convene at Houston to nominate a candidate for the President of the United States. Capitalist Jones had built the bower. He was ready for his love...
...Robert Tyre Jones Jr., Jesse Holman Jones, Ambassador von Prittwitz of Germany, John Philip Sousa, President Simmons of the New York Stock Exchange, President Sloan of General Motors, President Coolidge of the U. S. A. and many another personage attended the spring dinner and prank-night of the Gridiron Club (Washington news-gatherers). Politics past, present and future were "horsed" as usual. President Coolidge stayed to the end and made a speech which, under the Gridiron Club's huddle system, might not be repeated or reported...
...Promoter. Ambitious to be Vice President, but doubtless open to persuasion, is Jesse Holman Jones of Texas. For four years he has been the Democratic Santa Claus. He is an astute banker and a big-scale builder as well as a booster. He can point with pride to having served with the late Henry P. Davison at International Red Cross conferences, representing President Wilson...