Word: galveston
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Churches must have money, and most ministers stoutly defend fund-raising systems that work. But many would also prefer to "do away with bazaars, raffles and anything that smacks of a church supported by gadgets," as the Rev. James Madden, vice chancellor of the Diocese of Galveston-Houston, puts it. He, and others, want "to bring back the idea that supporting the church is something natural...
...mile Great Northern Railway, the 6,682-mile Northern Pacific, the 8,546-mile Chicago, Burlington & Quincy and the 965-mile Spokane, Portland & Seattle. The result, including a few subsidiaries, would be a 26,564-mile system that would stretch from Chicago to Vancouver, B.C., and from Winnipeg to Galveston, rank third among U.S. railroads (after the Pennsylvania and Southern Pacific) in annual revenues, with its $775 million. The examiner, Robert H. Murphy, based his recommendation on the fact that the once powerful roads, though still making a profit, have suffered a "steady deterioration" in their financial condition. Reasons...
...zealous worker in the Shrine's child-welfare program, which has built and maintains 17 children's hospitals and has just raised $10,000,000 to build and staff three specialized institutions for the treatment of burns (the most common of childhood's accidents) in Galveston, Boston, and Cincinnati. He succeeds to an office once held by Actor Harold Lloyd, assumes leadership of more than three-quarters of a million men, currently including Chief Justice Earl Warren, former President Harry S. Truman, Thomas E. Dewey, Irving Berlin, and, quite naturally, Senator Barry Goldwater. Past members include...
...loved this sort of talk. Said Texas' National Committeeman Albert Fay: "You're not going to beat Lyndon Johnson unless you give him hell. No patsy campaign is going to win. Lyndon's got more skeletons in his closet than they've got down at Galveston medical school, and Miller can work on them...
...much. He browbeats poor Eatherly throughout most of the book, insinuates that Eatherly is an artful con-man who planned the whole hoax from the start. Actually, Eatherly seems more used than using. He fell into fame by chance and was exploited. Today he lives in gratifying notoriety in Galveston. Without Hiroshima, he would undoubtedly have been just one more anonymous neurotic, wishing somebody somewhere cared...