Word: houston
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Adams Carter '36, Arthur B. Emmons 3rd, ocC, Charles S. Houston '35, and William F. Loomis '36 are the men who, with T. Graham Brown of Cardiff, Wales, and Noel E. Odell, also a Britisher, will represent the Club. Carter has climbed extensively in Alaska, Emmons was a member of the Moore-Burdsall Expedition in the summer of 1934, and Loomis has climbed in Alaska, the Alps, and British Columbia. Brown, a noted English Alpinist, was a member of the Foraker party and Odell was one of the group which made the attempt on Everest in 1924. Odell and Brown...
...that he would leave Washington the day before the Republicans officially assemble in Cleveland. On the second day of their convention he would be in Little Rock, making a speech on behalf of Arkansas' Senator Joseph T. Robinson, who is up for reelection. Next Presidential stops will be Houston, San Antonio and Dallas where, presumably on the day that the Republicans nominate their candidate, he will address a rally of 40,000 Texans at the Texas Centennial Exposition. For this simple plan some wiseacres attributed to the President great political astuteness and an impish desire to steal headlines from...
...Detroit housewife appeared with a black eye. One mother bounced 880 miles from Columbus on a motorcycle. Houston women, like all good Texans of 1936, boosted their State's Centennial by wearing cowboy hats. From San Francisco arrived a team calling itself the Dr. Painless Parkers,* arrayed in jockey caps, white satin blouses, black satin pants. When these and some 1,500 other women reached Omaha three weeks ago for the 19th annual tournament of the Women's International Bowling Congress Inc., the oldest competitor, Omaha's own 67-year-old Mrs. Nevada Helen Robertson Tillson, opened...
...commentary on legislative procedure under the Roosevelt regime. Early in the current session, Roosevelt sent a message to Congress seeking $600,000,000 additional revenue and presented the House with a proposal to levy prohibitive taxes on undistributed income. Despite the reasonable arguments of Messrs. Sibley, May, and Houston, the House held only perfunctory hearings on the bill. The 240 pages of legislation, embodying an entirely new departure in our theory of taxation, were at no time carefully scrutinized by House legislators. Mindful that it is easiest to mend political fences with federal posts, the Representatives yielded to the clock...