Word: stokely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When scholarly, bush-haired Harold Walter Stoke took over as president of Louisiana State University in 1947, he came as a man with a mission: he wanted to raise L.S.U.'s academic reputation to the level of the lavish $41 million campus that Huey Long had helped to build. For a while, it seemed as if he might succeed in doing just that (TIME...
...Houston, rough, tough Oilman Glenn McCarthy is known as a man with plenty of irons in the fire and plenty of greenbacks to stoke it. He had built the $21 million Shamrock Hotel, put millions of his own and borrowed money into chemical plants, a radio station, oilfields, natural gas, real estate. But last week many a Houston citizen blinked in surprise. Glenn McCarthy had asked RFC for a $70 million loan...