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...Jesse Holman Jones. In Houston lives a ponderous, genial, whitehaired personage, know to Houstonians as a timber magnate who moved down from Dallas 20 years ago to open banks & bond houses, build hotels, publish the Houston Chronicle, etc., etc. He looks, acts and is one of the richest men in all rich Texas?Jesse Holman Jones. In Who's Who, Mr. Jones calls himself, "builder, financier." Among nationally experienced Democrats, he has come to be known as a politician, almost as well known as that other Texan, Col. Edward Mandell House of the Wilson regime...
...outlook in the hurdles appears much brighter to Coach Farrell, for in the United States is any number of good timber-toppers and several excellent performers...
...National Guard, organizing the Reserves, mobilizing industry, ordnance, munitions as provided by the National Defense Act. (TIME, Jan. 9). When younger men go off to put "experience in Washington" to their own good uses, a Col. Robbins may be depended on by Cabinetmakers as a permanent sort of timber for underpinning...
...Evidently referring to shouts by American Farm Bureau Federation delegates at General Pershing last month in Chicago (TIME Dec. 26, 1927): "You're Presidential timber! You're a candidate for President!" General Pershing said: "What...
...Presidential timber! You're a candidate for President!" cried American Farm Bureau Federation delegates, last fortnight in Chicago, at General John Joseph Pershing. General Pershing's teeth flashed but he said nothing. Newsgatherers followed him to his hotel. Said he: "What can I say? I do not talk politics and there is no statement I can make...