Word: houston
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...summer day in 1920, Oscar Holcombe was cooling off at a soda fountain in Houston's old Scanlan Building. He ridiculed the idea that he should run for mayor. He explained to a friend that he was happy and prosperous as a building contractor. But he ran anyway, defeated the city attorney, the vice president of the Houston Post and a county commissioner who was considered the shoo-in candidate. He did it by "shaking hands with everybody in town . . . up one side of the street and down the other...
...crushed his right leg last spring, and freckle-faced Leadom Beatty, 14, has been laid up in bed ever since. But last week he was "back" at school, hooked up from his bed to the sixth-grade classroom at Houston's Fannin Elementary School...
...mile pipeline was the brain child of Houston's Ray C. Fish, 46, president of Fish Engineering Corp., who had built the Tennessee Gas Transmission pipeline, and Claude A. Williams, an .unsuccessful bidder for the Government's Big Inch. Once they had steered their Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Corp. past the Federal Power Commission in Washington, the rest was smooth sailing...
Harvard Club of Eastern New York, Albany, Edward S. Godfrey III '34, 235 Lenox ave,; Harvard Club of Fairmont, West Virginia, James O. Watson '00, Watson Building; Harvard Club of Houston, Nathaniel Ware '34, 323 Bankers Mortgage Building; Harvard Club of Jacksonville, Josiah D. Segal '21, P.O. Box 329; Harvard Club of Kansas City, Ralph W. Elis '26, 1001 Commerce Building...
Albany, December 23; Atlanta, December 20; Birmingham; Buffalo; Cedar Rapids; Charlotte; Chicago; Cincinnati; Cleveland; Columbus; Concord, Mass.; Dos Moines; Detroit, December 28; FairMont, West Virginia; Grand Rapids; Houston; Jacksonville, December 29; Kansas City...