Box 5
Container
Contains 123 Collections and/or Records:
WGH - Drew Pearson re Sunday afternoon broadcasts, April 1953
File — Box: 5, Folder: 51
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Walter Gardner Hall has been a man of many parts--most of them seemingly incongruous. He has been a successful banker and a champion of the liberal wing of the Texas Democratic Party. He has had important social and business ties with the conservative Houston establishment and at the same time has been a close friend of such anti-establishment figures as John Henry Faulk. Through the political wars of the 1950's and 1960's, Hall managed to remain on good...
Dates:
April 1953
WGH - Fagan Dickson re meeting at Buchanan Dam, Apr. - May 1953
File — Box: 5, Folder: 52
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Walter Gardner Hall has been a man of many parts--most of them seemingly incongruous. He has been a successful banker and a champion of the liberal wing of the Texas Democratic Party. He has had important social and business ties with the conservative Houston establishment and at the same time has been a close friend of such anti-establishment figures as John Henry Faulk. Through the political wars of the 1950's and 1960's, Hall managed to remain on good...
Dates:
Apr. - May 1953
WGH - Marvin Nichol re Bureau of Reclamation, May - Aug. 1953
File — Box: 5, Folder: 53
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Walter Gardner Hall has been a man of many parts--most of them seemingly incongruous. He has been a successful banker and a champion of the liberal wing of the Texas Democratic Party. He has had important social and business ties with the conservative Houston establishment and at the same time has been a close friend of such anti-establishment figures as John Henry Faulk. Through the political wars of the 1950's and 1960's, Hall managed to remain on good...
Dates:
May - Aug. 1953
WGH - Creekmore Fath re Texas Democratic Organizing Committee, July 1953
File — Box: 5, Folder: 54
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Walter Gardner Hall has been a man of many parts--most of them seemingly incongruous. He has been a successful banker and a champion of the liberal wing of the Texas Democratic Party. He has had important social and business ties with the conservative Houston establishment and at the same time has been a close friend of such anti-establishment figures as John Henry Faulk. Through the political wars of the 1950's and 1960's, Hall managed to remain on good...
Dates:
July 1953
WGH - India Edwards re Democratic Digest, Aug. 1953
File — Box: 5, Folder: 55
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Walter Gardner Hall has been a man of many parts--most of them seemingly incongruous. He has been a successful banker and a champion of the liberal wing of the Texas Democratic Party. He has had important social and business ties with the conservative Houston establishment and at the same time has been a close friend of such anti-establishment figures as John Henry Faulk. Through the political wars of the 1950's and 1960's, Hall managed to remain on good...
Dates:
Aug. 1953
WGH - Oveta Culp Hobby re Marine hospitals, Sept. 1953
File — Box: 5, Folder: 56
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Walter Gardner Hall has been a man of many parts--most of them seemingly incongruous. He has been a successful banker and a champion of the liberal wing of the Texas Democratic Party. He has had important social and business ties with the conservative Houston establishment and at the same time has been a close friend of such anti-establishment figures as John Henry Faulk. Through the political wars of the 1950's and 1960's, Hall managed to remain on good...
Dates:
Sept. 1953
WGH - Travis Bryan re Democratic Party, Sept. 1953
File — Box: 5, Folder: 57
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Walter Gardner Hall has been a man of many parts--most of them seemingly incongruous. He has been a successful banker and a champion of the liberal wing of the Texas Democratic Party. He has had important social and business ties with the conservative Houston establishment and at the same time has been a close friend of such anti-establishment figures as John Henry Faulk. Through the political wars of the 1950's and 1960's, Hall managed to remain on good...
Dates:
Sept. 1953
WGH - Creekmore Fath re Texas Democratic Party and national leadership, Sept. 1953
File — Box: 5, Folder: 58
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Walter Gardner Hall has been a man of many parts--most of them seemingly incongruous. He has been a successful banker and a champion of the liberal wing of the Texas Democratic Party. He has had important social and business ties with the conservative Houston establishment and at the same time has been a close friend of such anti-establishment figures as John Henry Faulk. Through the political wars of the 1950's and 1960's, Hall managed to remain on good...
Dates:
Sept. 1953
WGH - Stuart Long re tax equalization in Galveston Co., Sept. 1953
File — Box: 5, Folder: 59
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Walter Gardner Hall has been a man of many parts--most of them seemingly incongruous. He has been a successful banker and a champion of the liberal wing of the Texas Democratic Party. He has had important social and business ties with the conservative Houston establishment and at the same time has been a close friend of such anti-establishment figures as John Henry Faulk. Through the political wars of the 1950's and 1960's, Hall managed to remain on good...
Dates:
Sept. 1953
Paul Holcomb, How Texas became a No-Party State,
Texas Observer, Oct. 19, 1953
File — Box: 5, Folder: 60
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Walter Gardner Hall has been a man of many parts--most of them seemingly incongruous. He has been a successful banker and a champion of the liberal wing of the Texas Democratic Party. He has had important social and business ties with the conservative Houston establishment and at the same time has been a close friend of such anti-establishment figures as John Henry Faulk. Through the political wars of the 1950's and 1960's, Hall managed to remain on good...
Dates:
Oct. 19, 1953