Word: houston
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Smith strength at hand from at least two Favorite Sons (Ohio's Pomerene, Nebraska's Hitchcock), the rush for the brown derby counter seemed so well under way that Smith men tried to talk down their earlier talk of acclaiming Candidate Smith on the first ballot at Houston. It would look just as much like party harmony and less like a Smith stampede, they reasoned, if Favorite Sons should receive complimentary votes for perhaps two ballots. The third ballot would suit the Smith men. That would contrast patly with 1924, when John W. Davis was nominated...
...polite, more stubborn. He said he only wished Mr. Walsh had withdrawn "before he muddied the water." Candidate Reed pictured himself as "a General in a war" and said he would not surrender because he had lost a "skirmish." He men tioned "great issues" and said: "The convention at Houston will at least have a chance to vote on them...
...HOUSTON, COLOSSUS IN BUCKSKIN-George Creel-Cosmopolitan ($3). The annexation of Texas was so much a matter of politics that the real issues, violent and blood-spattered, are dimmed. George Creel* brings them to light through the colorful story of Sam Houston, dreamer, drunkard, man of action. A youth, in Tennessee, he showed dangerous scholastic tendencies, poring over Pope's Iliad, so his brothers set him clerking in the village store. Seeking refuge with the Cherokees, Sam announced in grandiloquent terms worthy of his master, Pope, that he preferred measuring deer tracks to tape; and later married a squaw...
Bitterly criticized for procrastination, Houston saw no reason for having two bites at one cherry, and proved his strategy by routing General Santa Anna, whose army outnumbered the Texans...
...Barton, mining geologist of Houston. Texas, will give an illustrated lecture on "Geographical Methods in Oil Geology" in the Mineralogical Lecture Room of the University Museum this evening at 8 o'clock. The lecture is open to members of the University...