Word: houston
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With a proud and somewhat hurt air, a group of Texas oillionaires gathered last week at a ground-breaking ceremony for the Houston Museum of Fine Arts' $860,000 building-expansion program. There to wield a special silver shovel were Donors Nina Cullinan (daughter of Texas Co. Founder Joseph S. Cullinan), who is putting up more than $430,000 for a new, ultramodern, Mies van der Rohe-designed museum wing, and Mrs. Olga Wiess (widow of Humble Oil Co. Co-Founder Harry Wiess), who with other Texans, including the Jesse Jones family, contributed enough for remodeling and air-conditioning...
...William W. Stratman. pastor of St. Matthew's Lutheran Church in Houston, lashed out at the ministers and church groups campaigning for prohibition of alcoholic beverages in Texas as "both un-Christian and un-American...
...bride of Christ, the church has no business to dabble in politics." he told the Houston Junior Chamber of Commerce. "If the state is not to exercise an)' form of control over the church, the church is not to exercise any form of control over the state...
Harvard in Houston...
...similar plan in intent was discussed whereby the University would establish a sister institution to act as a sort of Harvard farm-club, and also to demonstrate the University's concern for the legion of war babies who are massing for an attack on colleges. Harvard in Houston, as the plan was called, never received the publicity of Mr. Cherington's, but public concern was equally apathetic...