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John E. Lyle Jr.
John Emmett Lyle Jr. (September 4, 1910 – November 11, 2003) was a U.S. Representative from Texas. Early life A third generation Texan born in Boyd, Texas, Lyle graduated from Wichita Falls High School, Wichita Falls, Texas. He attended the Junior College at Wichita Falls, the University of Texas (working as a night watchman in the Capitol basement), and the Houston Law School at night. He was admitted to the bar in 1934, and entered private practice in Corpus Christi. Political career Lyle served as a member of the Texas House of Representatives from 1941 to 1944. He was in the United States Army from 1942 to 1944; when he won the Democratic primary for renomination in 1942, he was an active duty Captain of artillery in Italy. He was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-ninth and to the four succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1945 – January 3, 1955), enjoying strong support from the Parr family of Duval County. He was not a candidate for renomination to Congress in 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Texas
The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin, UT, or Texas) is a public research university in Austin, Texas, United States. Founded in 1883, it is the flagship institution of the University of Texas System. With 53,082 students as of fall 2023, it is also the largest institution in the system. The university is a major center for academic research, with research expenditures totaling $1.06 billion for the 2023 fiscal year. It joined the Association of American Universities in 1929. The university houses seven museums and seventeen libraries, including the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library and the Blanton Museum of Art, and operates various auxiliary research facilities, such as the J. J. Pickle Research Campus and McDonald Observatory. UT Austin's athletics constitute the Texas Longhorns. The Longhorns have won four NCAA Division I National Football Championships, six NCAA Division I National Baseball Championships, sixteen NCAA Division I National Men's Swimming ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Years Of Lyndon Johnson
''The Years of Lyndon Johnson'' is a biography of Lyndon B. Johnson by the American writer Robert Caro. Four volumes have been published, running to more than 3,000 pages in total, detailing Johnson's early life, education, and political career. A fifth volume, which is currently being written, is expected to deal with the bulk of Johnson's presidency and post-presidential years. The series is published by Alfred A. Knopf. Book One: ''The Path to Power'' (1982) In the first volume, ''The Path to Power'', Caro retraced Johnson's early life growing up in the Texas Hill Country and working in Washington, D.C. first as a congressional aide and then as a congressman. Caro's research included renting a house in the Hill Country for three years, living there much of that time, to interview numerous people who knew Johnson and his family, and to better understand the environment in which Johnson had grown up. This volume covers Johnson's life through his failed 1941 campaign for the Un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Communist Party USA
The Communist Party USA (CPUSA), officially the Communist Party of the United States of America, also referred to as the American Communist Party mainly during the 20th century, is a communist party in the United States. It was established in 1919 in the wake of the Russian Revolution, emerging from the far-left wing of the Socialist Party of America (SPA). The CPUSA sought to establish socialism in the U.S. via the principles of Marxism–Leninism, aligning itself with the Communist International (Comintern), which was controlled by the Soviet Union. The CPUSA's early years were marked by factional struggles and clandestine activities. The U.S. government viewed the party as a subversive threat, leading to mass arrests and deportations in the Palmer Raids of 1919–1920. Despite this, the CPUSA expanded its influence, particularly among industrial workers, immigrants, and African Americans. In the 1920s, the party remained a small but militant force. During the Great Depres ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leland Olds Hearing
The United States Senate failed to confirm the re-nomination of Leland Olds as the head of the Federal Power Commission in 1949. Olds was an economist who in the 1920s, before he was appointed by Franklin Roosevelt, Roosevelt as chairman of the commission, had been the Industrial editor for the Federated Press. It was a left wing news agency which served Trade Union newspapers but had an ambiguous relationship with the American Communist Party. The Olds hearings have been cited as a precursor to McCarthyism. Tenure in the Federal Power Commission The Federal Power Commission was a five-member regulatory body appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate. One of the FPC's strongest leaders was Leland Olds who by 1949 had served two terms. Olds' insistence on enforcing the Natural Gas Act of 1938 raised the ire of the oil industry in Texas. In 1944, when Olds was renominated by Roosevelt, his writing for the Federated Press had been brought up by the anti-New Deal Republic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leland Olds
Leland Olds (December 31, 1890 – August 5, 1960) was an American economist interested in labor, development of public electric power, and ecology. Education Olds was a son of George Olds, president of Amherst College. He studied mathematics at Amherst where he was influenced by the ideal of social work and the Social Gospel. He was a graduate student at Union Theological Seminary and then served as pastor of a small Congregational church in Brooklyn before spending some months in the army. Early career "Jolly, witty, informal" as well as "very fair-minded" and an accomplished cellist, Olds had been a minister, a teacher at Amherst, a researcher both for the federal government and the American Federation of Labor and a labor journalist. During 1918 and 1919 he was, along with Thorstein Veblen, part of the original Technical Alliance, associated with the philosophy of Technocracy In 1920 he met Franklin D. Roosevelt, Governor of New York, who appointed him to the Power Autho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chairman Of The Federal Power Commission
The Federal Power Commission (FPC) was an Independent agencies of the United States government, independent commission of the United States government, originally organized on June 23, 1930, with five members nominated by the President of the United States, president and confirmed by the United States Senate, Senate. The FPC was originally created in 1920 by the Federal Power Act, Federal Water Power Act, which provided for the licensing by the FPC of hydroelectric projects on the land or navigable water owned by the federal government. The FPC has since been replaced by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. The FPC also regulated interstate electric utilities and the natural gas industry. In June 1939, President Roosevelt appointed Leland Olds to the FPC, who served as chairman from January 1940 until 1949. Under Olds’ leadership, the FPC successfully pressured electric utilities to extend power into neglected rural areas and to lower electricity rates to increase use. How ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duval County, Texas
Duval County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 census, its population was 9,831. Its county seat is San Diego. The county was founded in 1858 and later organized in 1876. It is named for Burr H. Duval, a soldier in the Texas Revolution who died in the Goliad Massacre. History Duval County's development began during the Viceroyalty of New Spain (1521–1821). In 1804, six years before Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla launched Mexico's successful independence movement from Spain, Jose Faustino Contreras, surveyor general of San Luis Potosi, charted the county's landscape, which attracted colonists from Mier, Tamaulipas. On February 1, 1858, the Texas Legislature established Duval County. The Texas Almanac of 1867 reported that Duval and nearby Dimmit County had only four stock raisers and their population was unlikely to grow much, absent the discovery of mineral wealth. Not long after, a wave of Anglo immigrants entered the county to raise sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Berham Parr
George Berham Parr (March 1, 1901 – April 1, 1975) was an American politician, who controlled a Democratic Party (United States), Democratic political machine that dominated Duval County, Texas, Duval County, Texas and, to a lesser extent, Jim Wells County, Texas, Jim Wells County. He was known as "The Duke of Duval," like Archie Parr, his father before him. Early life George Berham Parr was born on March 1, 1901, in San Diego, Texas, San Diego, Texas. His father was Archer "Archie Parr, Archie" Parr, a prominent local political boss. Personal life Parr was a legislative page at the Texas capitol during one of his father's terms in the Texas Legislature and attended the West Texas Military Academy for four years. He graduated from Roy Miller High School, Corpus Christi High School in 1921, where he played End (American football), end on the football team that won the South Texas championship. Parr attended a variety of Post-secondary education, post-secondary educational ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
79th United States Congress
The 79th United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, composed of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It met in Washington, D.C., from January 3, 1945, to January 3, 1947, during the last months of Franklin D. Roosevelt's presidency, and the first two years of Harry Truman's presidency. The apportionment of seats in this House of Representatives was based on the 1940 United States census. Both chambers had a Democratic majority (including increasing their edge in the House). With the reelection of President Franklin D. Roosevelt to a record fourth term, the Democrats maintained an overall federal government trifecta. Major events * January 20, 1945: President Franklin D. Roosevelt began his fourth term. * April 12, 1945: President Roosevelt died, Vice President Harry S. Truman became President of the United States. * September 2, 1945: World War II ended. * September 11, 1945 � ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dallas, Texas
Dallas () is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the most populous city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, the List of Texas metropolitan areas, most populous metropolitan area in Texas and the Metropolitan statistical area, fourth-most populous metropolitan area in the United States at 7.5 million people. It is the most populous city in and the county seat, seat of Dallas County, Texas, Dallas County, covering nearly 386 square miles into Collin County, Texas, Collin, Denton County, Texas, Denton, Kaufman County, Texas, Kaufman, and Rockwall County, Texas, Rockwall counties. With a 2020 United States census, 2020 census population of 1,304,379, it is the List of United States cities by population, ninth-most populous city in the U.S. and the List of cities in Texas by population, third-most populous city in Texas after Houston and San Antonio. Located in the North Texas region, the city of Dallas is the main core of the largest metropolitan area in the Southern Unite ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Tuscaloosa News
The '' Tuscaloosa News '' is a daily newspaper serving Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States, and the surrounding area in west central Alabama. It is owned by Gannett. In 2012, Halifax Media Group acquired the ''Tuscaloosa News''. Prior to that, the paper's owner was The New York Times Company. The New York Times Company acquired the ''News'' in 1985 from the Public Welfare Foundation, a charitable entity. The ''News'' had been donated to that foundation by its owner Edward Marsh, along with other newspapers he owned, before his death in 1964. In 2015, Halifax was acquired by GateHouse Media (legally known as New Media Investment Group). In 2019, Gatehouse's parent company was purchased by Gannett. The ''News'' has a 12-month average circulation in 2008 of 32,700 daily and 34,600 Sunday. Of the 25 daily newspapers published in Alabama, the ''News'' has the fifth-highest daily circulation. Beginning in 2001, the ''News'' constructed and occupied a new facility overlooking th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
