Word: galveston
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Galveston flood in 1900 she put on male clothes, shouldered a pickax, was the first reporter through the lines. Climbing over piles of corpses, she filed an exclusive story, organized an emergency hospital, got Publisher Hearst to send relief trains. Another time, disguised as a Salvation Army lass, she visited the "lowest dives" of the Barbary Coast, wrote a stirring series on vice. She covered the Thaw murder trial, interviewed everyone from Sir Henry Irving to President Harrison, visited the leper colony at Molokai. When Mr. Hearst's mother died in 1919, "Annie Laurie" wrote the official press obituary...
...that Baptist institution had not stolen Dr. Rainey from the presidency of small Franklin College four years ago. Twelve years before that Education had stolen him from professional baseball, a career on which he launched, immediately after his graduation from Austin College (Sherman, Tex.), as star pitcher of the Galveston team in the Texas League. A top-notch tennist, Dr. Rainey has often been seen wandering through the dormitories of whatever college he happened to head, looking for a student to trim. In his four years at Bucknell he has made news by scrambling the curriculum to make room...
...only eight years old, the flagship of her line, equipped with all modern navigation gadgets. Her commander, towheaded Captain Einar William Sundstrom, had a fine reputation for seamanship. Of his 50 years, 34 had been spent at sea. No stranger to marine disaster, he had been rammed off Galveston Bay, brought a vessel safely through a 120-m.p.h. hurricane. Of a philosophical turn of mind, Captain Sundstrom had observed upon taking command of the Dixie last year: "You've always got to be on guard against the oceans. They may look peaceful and act peaceful for a long time...
...national news by rediscovering the famed Spindletop Field near Beaumont. Everybody supposed that Spindletop had been drained dry. Yount-Lee opened a rich new producing sand by drilling deeper than anybody had had the courage to go before. Later the company discovered and developed the High Island Field in Galveston County. Today Yount-Lee is the biggest independent oil producer in the South, with 283,000 acres of oil lands and leases and 250 wells producing 20,000 bbl. a day under proration. All of the original backers are still in the company except Founder Yount who died...
...chosen were Sidney Stuart Alexander, of Forest City, Pennsylvania, Elmer Richard Best, of Cheviot, Ohio, Robert Carlton Hall, of Brookline, John Bamber Hickam, of Galveston, Texas, Harold Burton Jaffee, of New York City, Robert Hey Rawson, of Abington, Robert Dayton Sall, of Mattapan, and Robert Morton Terrall, of Lakewood, Ohio...