Word: sevier
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...president of one Corpus Christi bank, largest stockholder of another. She is known as "The Savior of the Alamo" because she once put up $65,000 (later repaid by the State) to keep commercial structures away from Texas' shrine. By the time she married Newspaperman Hal Sevier in 1906, Clara Driscoll had written two novels (The Girl of La Gloria, In the Shadow of the Alamo) and a musical comedy (Mexicana)* which the Brothers Shubert produced on Broadway. Democratic National Committeewoman Clara Driscoll Sevier gave liberally to the 1932 Roosevelt-Garner campaign fund. Husband Hal Sevier became Franklin Roosevelt...
Divorced. Rexford Guy Tugwell, original Brain Truster, now chairman of New York's City Planning Commission; by Florence Arnold Tugwell; in Yerington, Nev. Grounds: mental cruelty. Meanwhile, the Tugwells' older daughter, Tanis, 21, denied she was engaged to 22-year-old Sevier ("Stub"') Whatley, son of a one-time Tennessee coal miner, who took out a license to marry...
...Garland Sevier Ferguson Jr., 59, a North Carolina Democrat who was appointed by Calvin Coolidge and reappointed by President Roosevelt though rated the most conservative member of the commission. Much of his legal experience was gained as a lawyer for Southern Ry. In the general division of FTC duties, tall, baldish, able Mr. Ferguson tends to trials and examinations...
Seeking Divorce. Mrs. Clara Driscoll Sevier, 56, Democratic National Committeewoman for Texas ("The Woman Who Saved the Alamo"), wealthy rancher; from Henry Hulme ("Hal") Sevier, 59, onetime (1933-35) U. S. Ambassador to Chile, founder of the Austin (Tex.) American; in Corpus Christi...
...memoir of the author's historian husband and of her father, famed Southern author George W. Cable, whose Civil War novel Dr. Sevier has been cited as a forerunner of Gone With The Wind...