Word: houston
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Said a Texas legislator at Austin: "An awful lot of stuff hit the fan today. Maybe he shouldn't have said it all-about taxes-but I'm glad he did." The crowd of 25,000 sent him on his way to Houston with a burst of vociferous applause...
...hospitality was just beginning. The two most militant of his oilmen hosts, crag-faced Republican Hugh Roy Cullen (who hoped MacArthur would run for President) and Glenn McCarthy (who was hell-bent on publicizing his Shamrock Hotel), had been jockeying for weeks for first place in the MacArthur limelight. Houston's Mayor Oscar Holcombe had diplomatically made each chairman of a welcoming committee; between them they had toiled as if they anticipated the second coming of Sam Houston...
Next day the Houston Elks presented MacArthur with a modest token of Texas hospitality-a Cadillac. But for all of Glenn McCarthy's planning (which included closing Houston businesses up at 4 o'clock, instituting special bus service, firing off another 17-gun salute and commissioning a special song entitled I Shall Return), the general's speech at Rice Institute Stadium drew only 20,000 to a bowl that seats...
...HOUSTON CLUB...
Slow Burn. In Houston, Addie Belle Sanders, 69, divorced her husband of 46 years because she finally got tired of his 30-year romance with his 68-year-old girl friend...