Word: houston
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senators and Representatives. At last showing (TIME, Feb. 27), the Wet bloc in the House was 61 strong, led by Representative John Charles Linthicum of Maryland. The A. A. P. A. will also try to insert anti-Prohibition planks in the national platforms adopted at Kansas City and Houston...
...York Evening World. But few of them had realized what a whacking fine speaker he is. Last week, when nationally important Democrats met again in Washington, they elected the mild-mannered Manhattanite-Orator Claude Ger-nade Bowers, native of Indiana-to make the party's keynote speech at Houston next month...
Unfortunately, he felt, the voyage kept him away from the 15th annual convention of the National Foreign Trade Council at Houston last week. He had founded the organization and never before had failed its meetings. And this one was especially important because it dealt with U. S.-Latin America trade relations. Fourteen hundred delegates were at Houston. Don Carlos G. Davila, Ambassador from Chile to the U. S. flew by airplane from Montgomery, Ala., to Houston to impress on the U. S. businessmen there the wisdom of investing in Latin American companies, and leaving the Latin Americans in control...
Devices for securing funds for good works are multifarious and strange. None, certainly, is more strange or ingenious than the dinner which will be given, in Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Houston, Los Angeles, Manhattan, Milwaukee. Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, San Francisco, on May 21, in honor of the Rev. Dr. Henry Pereira Mendes, Founder and Honorary President of the Union of Orthodox Congregations of America. At this dinner, carrying to an extreme the fad for inexpensive banqueting which has been previously evidenced, no food whatever will be served. The guests-10,000 will be invited-will nonetheless pay for their good dinner...
...participated personally in Smith Week almost not at all. Leaving his brown derby in his hotel room at Biltmore, N. C., he wore a floppy felt hat and continued his golf. He said he had not changed his June plans: "When I said that I would not go to Houston, I meant it." Upon his fellow New Yorkers' action in presenting him to the nation he made no comment. Observers were thoroughly satisfied that he will exert himself to obtain the nomination no more overtly than he did last week in one action and two characteristic utterances...