Word: tulsa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Government was paying; that the Postmaster General forced him to sell out to American Airways-which he did at a $500,000 profit. ¶Hainer Hinshaw, onetime American Airways lobbyist, said Postmaster Brown had induced his company to agree not to bid on the proposed Savannah-Atlanta-Memphis-Tulsa route, since the Postoffice wanted to "take care of" Robertson Air Lines, which had been crudely frozen out of a St. Louis-New Orleans contract by one of the American Airways extensions. ¶Daniel Miller Sheaffer, executive of Pennsylvania Railroad and T. A. T., had an uncomfortable time with the committee...
Daniel Joseph Boorstin '34, of Tulsa, Oklahoma, has been awarded one of the scholarships offered by the Gulf Division of the Rhodes Foundation; Richard Bulger Schlatter '34, of Fostoria, Ohio, the New England Division award; and Richard Murphey Goodwin '34, of Newcastle, Indiana, the Central Division scholarship, it was announced last night by Frank Aydelotte, chairman of the Rhodes Scholarship Committee...
Boorstin is First Marshal of Phi Beta Kappa, a member of the editorial boards of the CRIMSON and the Harvard Critic. He prepared at Tulsa High School and is a resident of Eliot House. Schlatter is one of the leading scholars of his class, an editor of the Harvard Critic, and is a resident of Lowell House. Goodwin, who is also a member of Lowell, is, like Boorstin, an editor of both the CRIMSON and the Harvard Critic...
...Epsom Downs, the new track near Houston, Tex., last week little Jack Westrope booted in winners 297, 298, 299. Then he mounted a chestnut filly named Miss Tulsa. Another horse named Fortunate Youth forced her wide at the turn, forged ahead. Jockey Westrope lifted Miss Tulsa into the lead again, but she was spent, finished fourth. Next day the Epsom Downs stewards suspended Westrope for five days for rough riding. That left him three racing days in which to score his 300th victory...
...Howard columnist, their first president. But after a National Press Club luncheon at which General Johnson assured them that the Government would protect them from discharge for joining the Guild, the delegates promptly elected Broun. Other officers: Lloyd White (Cleveland Press), Andrew McClean Parker (Philadelphia Record), Edward D. Burks (Tulsa World), R. S. Gilfillan (Minneapolis Tribune), A. Judson Evans (Richmond Times-Dispatch), vice presidents; John Eddy (New York Times), secretary...