Fort Worth delegation
- Title
- Fort Worth delegation
- Creator
- Chase-Statler Photo (Washington, D.C.)
- Institution
- TCU
- Link
- https://repository.tcu.edu/handle/116099117/53990
- Description
- Photo of delegation attending a Senate hearing. On reverse: "Part of the Fort Worth delegation attending a hearing of Senate subcommittee in Washington concerning funds for the Midway Airport. Front row-Marshall Kennady, Harrison-Kennady Insurance Company; William Holden, executive vice-president of the Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce; Congressman Wingate Lucas; City Manager W. O. Jones; J. Lee Johnson, Jr., president, Cicero Smith Lumber Company; Mayor Edgar Deen; Web Maddox, president, Crystal Ice Company and president of the Chamber of Commerce; Raymond E. Buck, chairman of the board, Commercial Standard Insurance Company, and L. T. Martin, of Martin Federated Stores. Second row-Mayo Bowen, executive vice-president, First National Bank; Homer Covey, president Worth Food Markets; Beeman Fisher, assistant to the president, Texas Electric Service Company; J. M. North, Jr., editor, the Star-Telegram; W. K. Stripling, president, W. C. Stripling Department Store; W. R. Watt, rancher and president of the Southwestern Exposition and Fat Stock Show; Ernest Fender, president, Acme Brick Company; Jenkins Garrett, vice-president, Leonard's Department Store; Mayor Barney Barnes of Arlington; R. E. Cox, Sr., president, R. E. Cox & Company; Brandon Stone, vice-president, Fort Worth National Bank; Joe P. Moore, superintendent, Fort Worth Public Schools; Lorin Boswell, president, Boswell Creameries; Clay J. Berry, manager of Jesse Jones properties and city councilman; Roy Murphy, city councilman and rancher, and Ray Neighbors, Ray Neighbors Drug Store. Standing--Harold S. Foster, assistant general manager, Chamber of Commerce; Robert B. McKinley, McKinley Iron Works; Marvin J. Moore, Moore Drug Company; Joe Montague, Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association; Eddie Compton, attorney; George Thompson, Jr., vice-president, Continental National Bank; Henry Cook, engineer, Ridglea Development Company; William G. Fuller, and W. Leroy Stewart, vice-president Westbrook-Thompson Holding Corporation. Other members of the delegation, not shown in picture were; Frank Kent, president Frank Kent Motor Company; Ed L. Baker, Baker Brothers Nurseries; W. A. E. Woods, vice-president, Texas Steel Company; Thomas S. Byrne, building contractor; Rice Tilley, attorney; Howard Laird, president, Ellison's Furniture Company; R. L. Bowen, president of Community Public Service Company, and chairman of the Chamber's aviation committee, W. F. Collins, president Collins Art Company; and Cecil A. Morgan, attorney."
- Date
- 1942-09-30
- Decade
- 1940s
- Subjects
- Aviation
- Airport
- Midway Airport
- Source
- Box 261, Midway Airport Controversy, 1942 Folder, Item 001
- Type
- Image
- Formats
- 10x8 Photo
- Rights
- Prior written permission from TCU Special Collections required to use any document or photograph