Word: houston
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...Deal. After reading Taft's letter, Gabrielson recessed the hearing and urged the Taft Texans, headed by National Committeeman Henry Zweifel, and the Texans for Ike, headed by Houston Oilman Jack Porter, to get together. But the Eisenhower men refused to deal...
...Convention. Houston Lawyer Malcolm McCorquodale reported on Brazos County in southeast Texas. Said he: "The county chairman was a Zweifel henchman. He looked over these delegates and he saw he was going to get outvoted, so he just refused to call the meeting to order . . . He ran the delegates off the premises, held a county convention all by himself, elected himself delegate to Mineral Wells; he was seated at Mineral Wells, and cast the entire five votes for the county himself...
Early in the week, as the Taft steamrollers picked up speed, 23 of the nation's 25 Republican governors, in Houston for the annual Governors' Conference, joined in signing a telegram to Republican National Committee Chairman Guy Gabrielson. They asked him to abandon the basic Taft convention tactic: the rule that once pro-Taft delegates from contested states are seated by the Taft-dominated national committee and credentials committee, they must be allowed to participate in any full convention vote on the seating of other contested delegations. Said the governors: "We believe that if contested delegations are permitted...
...Houston, therefore, that the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis decided to conduct its biggest test of an inoculation which may make polio milder if it strikes and save the victim from permanent paralysis. There is no evidence that it can prevent polio. The material to be inoculated is gamma globulin, a blood fraction which contains antibodies against several diseases (TIME, Nov. 5). Tried in Provo, Utah on a scale too small to be decisive (TIME, April 28), it is to be given this week to half of 35,000 Houston youngsters aged one to six; the other half-the "control...
...last week, at the end of his column, he tacked on one of his familiar aphorisms: "An old Texas saying: Sam Houston made us free and Sam Colt made us equal." Next morning, Old Tack, 66, was found in the back seat of his car on a country road, a bullet in his head and a Colt revolver in his hand...