Word: houston
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Detroit, Michigan, George R. Berkaw, Jr. Assistant Vice-President of The Detroit Bank; Dearborn, Michigan, Tom Lilley '34, Manager, Financial Analysis Department of Ford Division, ford Mctor Co.; Houston, Texas, William S. Bush; and Indianapolis, Indiana, Edward H. Adriance of Eli Lilly...
Howard E. Houston '50, Donald E. Trimble '51, and Michael J. Scully '49, all members of this year's council, were re-elected to serve next year. They represent respectively football, track and crew...
Perhaps you will recall some recent TIME stories about Texas: the opening of Oilman Glenn McCarthy's $21 million Shamrock hotel in Houston; the successful financing of a 1,825-mile pipeline to pump gas from the Rio Grande to Manhattan; and a sketch of Oscar Holcombe, nine times mayor of Houston, where downtown property sells for $2,000 a front inch...
...seven days the three of them traveled 1,000 miles through Texas, getting an idea of its spectacular industrial growth, seeing TIME'S string correspondents on the local newspapers, and talking to all kinds of Texans. In Houston, the Mayor's secretary told a lot about his city and Texas when he was asked how old the handsome City Hall was. He replied: "Oh, it's ten years old, but it's been well kept...
...Huey Long's pet projects ("[I'm] the Chief Thief for L.S.U.!"), it was a tall order. But it was just what the L.S.U. Board of Supervisors had in mind. For months during 1947, the 14 supervisors, most of them appointees of "reform" Governors Sam Houston Jones and James Houston Davis, had been looking for an out-of-state educator who was neither a veteran of past L.S.U. ruckuses* with Huey Long or his political heirs, nor a henchman of Huey's brother Earl, who is now governor of Louisiana...