Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...will recall some recent TIME stories about Texas: the opening of Oilman Glenn McCarthy's $21 million Shamrock hotel in Houston; the successful financing of a 1,825-mile pipeline to pump gas from the Rio Grande to Manhattan; and a sketch of Oscar Holcombe, nine times mayor of Houston, where downtown property sells for $2,000 a front inch...
...seven days the three of them traveled 1,000 miles through Texas, getting an idea of its spectacular industrial growth, seeing TIME'S string correspondents on the local newspapers, and talking to all kinds of Texans. In Houston, the Mayor's secretary told a lot about his city and Texas when he was asked how old the handsome City Hall was. He replied: "Oh, it's ten years old, but it's been well kept...
...boiled Jack Campbell. Before long, more than tears was flowing: friends had sent over a supply of liquor. By the time the gang got through a fancy buffet lunch (courtesy of the Southern Pacific), a woman sword swallower had dropped in from a circus to swallow three swords, and Mayor Fletcher Bowron had read a proclamation making Campbell "mayor of the day." The Chamber of Commerce sent a chamber pot as a good-natured gag, and W. R. Hearst wired his congratulations...
...evening Express. City Editor Campbell printed his Page One on a green newsprint, and circulation climbed. When the Express imitated his stunt, Campbell headlined: E. T. EARL TURNS GREEN WITH ENVY. The Herald's big break came when the Express tagged Campbell's choice for mayor the candidate of "women of the underworld." Campbell sent reporters out to ask the candidate's clubwomen supporters how they liked being called prostitutes. They didn't, and the Herald picked up thousands of canceled Express subscriptions. In 1931, the slowed-down Express merged with Hearst's Herald...
Missing Heads. Explained the Met's Curator of Prints, A. Hyatt Mayor: "It does not matter if you are aware or ignorant of the Greeks and Romans; for them or against them. They are half the facts of life for Western...