Word: houston
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...appointment, however, for William Hastie, Knoxville born, is rated one of the ablest Negro lawyers in the U. S. He was graduated from Amherst magna cum laude, went to Harvard Law School and became one of Felix Frankfurter's "Hot Dog Boys." He and his .cousin Charles H. Houston are the only two Negroes ever to have served on the editorial board of the Harvard Law Review. He has taught law in Howard (Negro) University in Washington, practiced it with his cousin's Washington law firm, Houston & Houston. For the last three years as assistant solicitor...
Last week in Houston, Winthrop Rockefeller, now 24, said he had finished his Humble apprenticeship of nearly three years, was ready for new work, probably in California. Said he: "I got a certain satisfaction out of physical labor, but my aspirations are slightly higher. It does not look like efficiency to have a man of my height [6 ft. 3½ in.] wielding a short-handled shovel." At home and abroad, young Mr. Rockefeller's business last week displayed these proofs of prosperity: ¶ U. S. oil production set a new all-time high with an average daily flow...
...Review's inside back cover, a standing feature was "Lady Houston's Cold Cure," for she, like America's Bernarr Macfadden, fancied herself as a health authority. A stern course of nostrums beloved by Britons (Gee's Cough Linctus, Langdale's Cinnamon, Byard's Oil), the cure was dedicated by its inventor to suffering mankind with this benediction: "If this remedy cures you, and I hope and believe it will, please report to me, and in payment let your fee be-just saying-God bless Lady Houston...
...Lady Houston was greatly upset when Edward VIII abdicated. An example of her verse, to commemorate his departure from England...
...still rides his 50,000 Colorado acres in sub-zero weather, could recall the time when nothing except long-horn cattle roamed the range. And presented to the convention was Rev. L. R. Millican, 84, a wrinkled, white-thatched Baptist circuit-rider who as a boy knew General Sam Houston, father of Texas independence...