Word: oilman
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...fund-raising pamphlet put out by the University of Houston in 1937 was like hundreds of others. But one of them fell on very good ground: into the hands of a multimillionaire named Hugh Roy Cullen. Oilman Cullen thumbed it through, over & over again. He was fascinated by the story of a "typical" job-holding student-a boy who worked and studied from 6:45 each morning until 11:10 each night. "That," said Hugh Cullen, "is the kind of people I want to help...
Since that day, Oilman Cullen has never stopped helping the University of Houston. When he began, the university was only three years old-a former junior college that had 1,300 students, 55 teachers and a single wooden shack on the San Jacinto high-school campus. By last week, when the university totted up its 1951 enrollment, even the eyes of Texas were wide with wonder. Houston announced that it had 13,541 students (second only to the University of Texas), a faculty of 513, a 260-acre campus. Thanks largely to the Cullen bounty, it was the fastest-growing...
...Texas City, Texas, when 150 curious citizens turned out to see the trial of Houston's wealthy Oilman Glenn McCarthy, charged with reckless driving, the justice of the peace ordered the hearing moved to the city hall auditorium. There, in festive fashion, the spectators drank pop, rolled the bottles down the aisle, heard the justice fine McCarthy $5 plus costs. The sting was poulticed later by inviting the defendant to attend Texas City's fair next week. McCarthy not only agreed to come, but said he would lead the parade, riding on a Palomino pony...
...after the fire, a Protestant oilman named J. William Everhart went to see the town's Roman Catholic priest, the Rev. John Goff. Everhart told Father Goff that he wanted to help rebuild the Catholic hospital...
...Oilman Everhart began by organizing a ten-man committee, none of them Catholics. With the help of such groups as Rotary, Kiwanis, Lions and the American Legion, they launched an appeal for funds that reached out all over the U.S. They mined every possible source for prospects; anybody who had signed the register at Effingham's hotel for the past five or six years got a letter. More than 100,000 letters went...