Word: galveston
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. John Held Jr. 42, cartoonist, author (Grim Youth, The Flesh is Weak), divorced last August by Mrs. Ada Johnson Held; and one Gladys Moore, 24, winner of a Galveston beauty contest in 1928 at which Artist Held was a judge; in Stamford, Conn...
Texas' two great industries are cotton and oil. Governor Sterling is an oil man. He was born 56 years ago into a large family impoverished by the Civil War. He left school early (his diction still shocks grammarians), started a small lighterage business near Galveston, opened a general store at the age of 20. He moved into the oil fields of Humble, made some money as a merchant and banker, in 1910 invested in two producing wells. Out of this venture grew Humble Oil Co. control of which was sold in 1919 to Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey...
Active in propagating new uses for cotton to increase consumption and reduce the cotton surplus is the Galveston (Texas) Chamber of Commerce. Recently it adopted and sent to Washington a resolution calling upon the Treasury to use an all-cotton paper stock for U. S. currency.* Last week Acting Secretary of the Treasury Ogden Livingston Mills, replying to the chamber's general manager, rejected the suggestion on the ground that linen stock gives paper money great durability. During the War when Irish linen was scarce the U. S. used cotton stock but discovered that it stretched and tore...
News that "Miss Belgium" had been chosen "Miss Universe" in Galveston, Texas appeared in Brussels last fortnight under the largest headlines and accompanied by the largest pictures which have appeared in Brussels before or since...
Ready for insertion whenever the program needed them were first-rate Albertina Rasch numbers; the Britton & Gang orchestra which smashes peanut brittle violins with acrobatic abandon; dusky, soft-hipped little Reri from Tahiti, native star of the film Tabu; Miss Universe and the next two prizewinners fresh from Galveston's beauty contest; mincing Albert Carroll (without makeup) and his impersonations. Better than any of these, the gangling 17-year-old named Hal LeRoy is a new loose-leg hoofer with the appeal of a playful, intelligent puppydog. The show was his whenever he danced...