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...Louis went a delegation headed by Tom K. Smith of Boatmen's National Bank who lately resigned as an assistant to Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau. Higher education was represented by President Bruce Payne of Peabody College in Nashville, Tenn. and President Pat Neff of Baylor University, Waco, onetime Governor of Texas. Governor Eugene Black of the Atlanta Federal Reserve Bank, now the President's official "liaison officer" between the Administration and the bankers, was there to drawl his endless funny stories. Board Chairman Clarence Edward Groesbeck of Electric Bond & Share went down from Manhattan. An old friend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: At Couchwood | 12/3/1934 | See Source »

...rent planes, for the use of its members, from the Inter-City Airlines at East Boston, which company has agreed to let the club use its planes at special reduced rates. The planes that will be made available to club-members include: Aeronca, Fleet Trainer, Fairchild Warner 22, Waco Cabin, and possibly Fairchild Cabin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Flying Club to Rent Their Machines From ICA | 11/9/1934 | See Source »

...hoped they would all grow up to rival Mary, Mona, Leota and Roberta Keys. 19. of Hollis. Okla.. famed because they reputedly are the only quadruplets ever to reach maturity. "The Bunch of Keys" graduated from high school last year, have just come home from Baylor University at Waco...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Latorras & Dionnes | 6/18/1934 | See Source »

...round and hard and brown as the pecans he grows on his ranch, packed up his starched collars and his cutaway, helped his quiet secretarial wife into the family car and motored to San Antonio. There he boarded a Katy train, talked briefly to a friend passing through Waco, but locked his stateroom door when he reached Dallas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Senators' Sound-Offs | 1/8/1934 | See Source »

Died. Mary Louise Cecilia ("Texas") Guinan, fiftyish, famed night club hostess; after an operation for ulcerated colitis; in Vancouver, B. C. Born on a potato ranch near Waco, Tex., she left a girls' school to become a rodeo performer, appeared in early western films as ''The Female Bill Hart." In Manhattan, she caught step with the tempo of the Prohibition-Prosperity era, found she could pack her gaudy hotspots by treating her customers with brassy insolence. She had a battalion of attorneys to keep her out of jail for prohibition offenses. Her star waned with the dawn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 13, 1933 | 11/13/1933 | See Source »

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