Word: houston
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most interesting and beautiful social function" in the "most beautiful botanical gardens" of the University of Pennsylvania on a most sticky, humid afternoon, a night club show, a church meeting, and an election. Winner in a spirited campaign for Association president was wizened, spry little William Lepré Houston, long a law professor at Washington's Howard University, uncle of Federal Judge Hastie, father of Charles Hamilton Houston, special counsel for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Judge Hastie and Son Houston are the only two Negroes ever to serve on the Harvard Law Review...
...Presidential yacht. On the endless list of Court possibilities drawn up by the quidnuncs of the press, the name of Frank Murphy stood beside such others as Solicitor General Stanley Reed, Federal Judges Sam Gilbert Bratton (onetime U. S. Senator from New Mexico), Joseph C. Hutcheson Jr. of Houston, Texas, Florence Allen of Columbus, Law Professors Felix Frankfurter of Harvard, Lloyd Garrison of Wisconsin...
...John Hay Whitney's Flying Scot, ridden by Jockey John Gilbert: the $35,000 Arlington Classic, feature race of the season at Chicago's swank Arlington Park; by half a length from Eagle Pass, owned by Emerson F. Woodward of Houston...
...small change. All patents which Activated Sludge controlled in the U. S. have now run out their 17 years, but the company still has suits pending against New York City, Fort Worth. Tex. and nearly 100 other cities. Back royalties and settlements secured since 1934 include: Cleveland $85,000, Houston $75,000, Indianapolis $73,000. San Antonio $58,000, Columbus $40,000, Peoria $23,000, Cuba...
...Commerce meeting in Berlin, Mr. Kadono and fellow missionaries were fatigued but well-satisfied that they had missed few contacts in the U. S. Accompanied by two wives, three managers, seven assistants and some 200 pieces of baggage, they had been entertained in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Dallas, Houston, New Orleans, Chicago, Detroit, Niagara Falls, Buffalo, Boston, New York and Washington. They had toured Ford and General Motors plants, the Endicott Johnson shoe factory at Binghamton, N. Y., General Electric's Schenectady plant and the broadcasting studios of Radio City. In conference with U. S. automobile men they were...