Word: houston
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sportswriters [appeared] on a television show sponsored by the tracks.'' One Texas editor, said Isaacs, "in a letter to me, said that one of the best names in the oil industry has several reporters on each paper in a certain town on his enterprises' payroll." In Houston three reporters were employed by the scandal-ridden housing authority and paid $75 a month each to write press releases. When Isaacs was managing editor of the late St. Louis Star-Times, he put a stop to the practice of letting news photographers take wedding pictures...
...power-nibblers among the old Ryan groups: Alleghany Corp. President Allan Kirby, financial partner of Robert R. Young (see above); New Mexico Publisher Robert McKinney, a cousin of Bob Young; ex-Governor Charles Edison of New Jersey; Chairman Arthur M. Hill of Greyhound Corp.'s executive committee; and Houston Oilman George Brown...
...Refused to overturn an Appeals Court decision that Houston must let Negroes use municipal golf courses...
Storm No. 1. The storm first struck when the State Insurance Commission disclosed that Houston's big, two-year-old Lloyd's of North America was operating at a $427,000 deficit. After looking into Lloyd's books, the commission decided that the company had been "utterly and hopelessly insolvent from its inception." It found that Ralph W. Hammonds, an ex-Olympic wrestler (1928), had borrowed $20,000 to start Lloyd's, added $20,000 of his own, sold more than 50,000 policies his first year, and paid back his loan with part...
...Court also ordered the City of Houston, Texas, to permit Negroes to use municipal golf courses on a segregated basis. This appeal by the city has been before the Court since June...