Word: houston
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...because we wanted to gain as much strength as possible before other networks found out what was happening to them. But now we're ready." One of the main reasons why McLendon's Texas-born Liberty network was ready last week was a visit he paid to Houston's oil-rich Hugh Roy Cullen. The $1,000,000 Cullen agreed to invest in Liberty was enough to make him a partner in a network that has become the nation's second biggest in number of stations...
Short-Term Loan. In Houston, the day after he gave a pint of blood to a hospital bank, John T. Brown was badly cut by a power mower, needed a transfusion, and got his own blood back...
...money is said to be there for the asking from such men as International Business Machines' T. J. ("Think") Watson and Manhattan's Banker Winthrop Aldrich. Eisenhower's past visits to Texas have brought out some of the biggest of Texas' Big Rich. Houston's Hugh Roy Cullen, oilman and a partner of Jack Porter, is an avowed Ike man. Said a San Francisco money-raiser: "By fall, the Eisenhower movement will be sweeping the country. It'll have the same tinges of enthusiasm as the Willkie boom and there...
...CULLEN Houston...
...candidate for President, there's not a steer in Texas. The Mac-kado rides again!" Most everybody else seemed to take the general's own disclaimers at face value: before Congress, he had referred to himself as "in the fading twilight of life"; in Houston, asked if he would be a candidate for President, he replied, "Emphatically no." What was plainly clear was MacArthur's determination to unseat the President who fired...