Word: tulsa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Frank H. Baker of Hartford, Conn.; Phillip R. Burnaman of Tulsa, Okla.; Hugh P. Chandler (Capt.) of Auburndale, Mass.; Kenneth B. Culbert of E. Boothbay, Me.; Philip M. Herrera of Guatemala; Richard W. Hook of Medford, Mass.; Peter F. Morrison of Waban, Mass.; William C. B. Young of Baltimore...
...Jones, a Braniff director since 1944, started out in the auto-selling business in 1920, when he put a faltering Ford agency in Blackwell, Okla. on its feet. He got a Ford dealership in Oklahoma City, quickly built it into the biggest in the state. He added a Tulsa agency, a radio station (KFMJ), and became vice president of the Julian Oil & Royalty...
...biggest art deals in recent years is in the making. It involves the transfer of the enormous Gilcrease collection of Americana (TIME, June 27, 1949) from the Thomas Gilcrease Foundation at Tulsa to public ownership and a new museum in Claremore, Okla...
...debts, the rest to start a new museum in Claremore. Governor Murray went on the radio to ask the public to subscribe $100,000 immediately to meet pressing needs, and by last week, $50,000 had been pledged or was in hand. Gilcrease himself plans to move from Tulsa to Claremore, to serve as director of the new museum. Anxious only to keep his collection together, Gilcrease was delighted with the prospect. Said he: "I set up [the collection] for the benefit of the people. It has value only when held intact for . . . the people...
...scholarships, awarded on the basis of "character, intellect, leadership, and physical vigor" were given to Paul Douglas Sheats, of Washington, D.C. and Eliot House, Frank Ira Goodman, of San Antonio and Lowell House, Eliot Dexter Hawkins, of New York and Eliot House, and Martin Alvord Kramer, of Tulsa, Oklahoma and Eliot House...