Word: houston
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Taft delegation from Texas should be seated in the Republican National Convention. He had watched over the case all night in his room on the train, he said, so no one would get away with the evidence. When word of Zweifel's arrival with case and comment reached Houston, there was an immediate reaction from H. J. ("Jack") Porter, head of the Eisenhower delegation from Texas. Said he: "The Taft forces couldn't get enough documentation in the hold of the Queen Mary to justify their brazen steal of delegates in Texas...
...most of the U.S. will fare this year. But there is no doubt that Texas is in the grip of a severe epidemic. No fewer than 860 cases have been reported there since the beginning of the "disease year" in late March (compared with 280 a year ago). Houston, with the rest of Harris County, is especially hard...
...jamming was done by Joe Ingraham, an experienced Republican hand in Texas, the party's chairman for Harris County (Houston), and until a few weeks ago a staunch Taftman. Said Ingraham: "The Zweifel-Taft group . . . campaigned actively all over the state to get Democrats to come into the precinct conventions and vote for Taft. About a week before the precinct conventions, Henry Zweifel [Texas Republican national committeeman] spoke in Houston and threw out an open invitation to Democrats to come into the Republican precinct conventions. And whom did they elect on the Zweifel-Taft delegation, as delegate for this...
...John T. Biggers, 28, a Negro who took his M.A. in art education at Pennsylvania State College, migrated to Texas in 1949 when he was offered a $6,000-a-year job at Houston's Texas Southern University and a chance to keep drawing his sad pictures of tired newsboys and harvesters...
Died. Rabbi Henry Cohen, 89, for 64 years spiritual leader of Galveston's Temple B'nai Israel, whom Woodrow Wilson called "the First Citizen of Texas"; in Houston. British-born Henry Cohen came to Galveston in 1888, soon became famous for scurrying through the streets and stopping to jot down on his long, white cuff ("my notebook") the names of those he must help, regardless of creed ("There is no such thing as Methodist mumps, Baptist domestic troubles, Presbyterian poverty or Catholic broken legs"). His interest in parole work was sparked by Author O. Henry, a onetime convict...