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Charles Hurwitz
Charles Edwin Hurwitz (born 1940) is an American businessman and financier known for his role in the 1980s savings and loan crisis, and his takeover of Pacific Lumber Company, a logging company active in Humboldt County, California. His other holdings have included Kaiser Aluminum Corporation, a pari-mutual racing facilities in Texas, real estate developments throughout the Southwest and the Ozark Mountains in Arkansas; retail store complexes in western New York; a golf resort in Florida and a hotel-condominium resort and 1,300 acres developed in Puerto Rico. In 1988, his company Federated Development built a $75-million resort hotel in Rancho Mirage, California, overcoming opposition from residents, including Frank Sinatra. Early life and education Charles Edwin Hurwitz was born in 1940, and raised in Kilgore, Texas. His parents were Eva (née Engler) and Hyman Hurwitz, and his father was Jewish and owned a local clothing store, "Hurwitz Man’s Shop" and he built the town's f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kilgore, Texas
Kilgore is a city in Gregg and Rusk counties in the eastern part of the U.S. state of Texas Texas (, ; Spanish language, Spanish: ''Texas'', ''Tejas'') is a state in the South Central United States, South Central region of the United States. At 268,596 square miles (695,662 km2), and with more than 29.1 million residents in 2 .... Over three-fourths of the city limits is located in Gregg County, the remainder in Rusk County. The population was 12,975 at the 2010 United States Census, 2010 census and 13,376 at the 2020 census. From the age of six, Van Cliburn lived in Kilgore; he became an internationally known classical pianist. He is the namesake for Van Cliburn Auditorium on the Kilgore College campus. History Kilgore was founded in 1872 when the International–Great Northern Railroad completed the initial phase of rail line between Palestine, Texas, Palestine and Longview, Texas, Longview. The rail company chose to bypass New Danville, a small community about ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
McCulloch Oil
McCulloch Motors Corporation is an American manufacturer of chainsaws and other outdoor power tools. The company was founded in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1943 by Robert P. McCulloch, Robert Paxton McCulloch as a manufacturer of small Two-stroke engine, two-stroke gasoline engines and introduced its first chainsaw in 1948, the Model 5-49. McCulloch and its brand are owned by Husqvarna Group, Husqvarna. History McCulloch moved its operation to California in 1946. In the 1950s, McCulloch manufactured target drone engines, which were sold to RadioPlane in the 1970s. These McCulloch 4318 small four cylinder Flat engine, horizontally opposed two-stroke engines were also popular for use in various small autogyros, such as the Bensen B-8M and Wallis WA-116 Agile, Wallis WA-116. McCulloch also started Paxton Automotive, manufacturing McCulloch-labeled superchargers like the one fitted to the Kaiser-Frazer, Kaiser Manhattan, the 1957 Studebaker Golden Hawk, and Ford Thunderbird. In 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States House Of Representatives
The United States House of Representatives, often referred to as the House of Representatives, the U.S. House, or simply the House, is the Lower house, lower chamber of the United States Congress, with the United States Senate, Senate being the Upper house, upper chamber. Together they comprise the national Bicameralism, bicameral legislature of the United States. The House's composition was established by Article One of the United States Constitution. The House is composed of representatives who, pursuant to the Uniform Congressional District Act, sit in single member List of United States congressional districts, congressional districts allocated to each U.S. state, state on a basis of population as measured by the United States Census, with each district having one representative, provided that each state is entitled to at least one. Since its inception in 1789, all representatives have been directly elected, although universal suffrage did not come to effect until after ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Pombo
Richard William Pombo, GOIH (born January 8, 1961) is an American lobbyist for mining and water-management companies and former Republican member of the United States House of Representatives, having represented California's 11th congressional district from 1993 to 2007. Pombo lost a reelection bid to Democratic challenger Jerry McNerney on November 7, 2006. On January 4, 2010, Pombo announced his candidacy for Congress in California's 19th congressional district to succeed retiring fellow Republican George Radanovich, although he did not live in the district.Paul RogersEnvironmentalists' nemesis Richard Pombo returns to politics ''San Jose Mercury News'', May 31, 2010, retrieved June 1, 2010 Pombo came in third in that four-way GOP race, with 20.8 percent of the votes. Early life and career Pombo was born in Tracy, California, 18 miles south of Stockton. He attended Cal Poly, Pomona, for three years before dropping out to work for his family's cattle and dairy business. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Doolittle
John Taylor Doolittle (born October 30, 1950), is an attorney and an American politician. Elected to Congress in 1990, he served as a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 1991 to 2009, representing (numbered as during his first term). In the 109th Congress, he held a leadership role as the Deputy Whip for the Republican party in the House. He was succeeded in the House of Representatives by Tom McClintock. Before being elected to Congress, he had served in the California State Senate from 1984 to 1991. In the approach to the 2008 election, Doolittle lost support from previous allies and had difficulty in fundraising. He announced that he would not run again. He had been criticized by opponents for improprieties, including using his wife's one-person firm for his political fundraising, as she based her compensation on a percentage of all funds raised, including from his PAC. She made nearly $180,000 in such commissions from 2001 to 2006. His offic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lynn Hughes
Lynn Nettleton Hughes (born 1941) is a Senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas, known for being removed from an unusual number of cases for showing bias and failing to follow federal rules. Hughes has been removed from so many cases that appeals seeking his removal have been described by the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit as "déjà vu all over again." Education and career Born in Houston, Texas, Hughes received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Alabama in 1963 and a Juris Doctor from the University of Texas School of Law in 1966. He was in private practice in Houston from 1966 to 1979. He was President of Southwest Resources in Houston from 1969 to 1970. He was a judge on the 165th Judicial District, State of Texas from 1979 to 1980. He was a judge on the 189th Judicial District, State of Texas from 1981 to 1985. He was an adjunct professor at the South Texas College of Law from 1973 to 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Headwaters Forest Reserve
The Headwaters Forest Reserve is a group of old growth Sequoia sempervirens, coast redwood (''Sequoia sempervirens'') groves in the Northern California coastal forests ecoregion near Humboldt Bay (United States), Humboldt Bay of the U.S. state of California. Comprising about , it is managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) as part of the National Landscape Conservation System. The climate is characterized by maritime conditions of cool, wet and foggy winters and cool to warm cloudy summers. Elevations range from to over . Overview The Nature reserve, reserve was established in 1999 (H.R. 2107, Title V. Sec.501.) The reserve was created after a 15-year effort to save the ancient ecosystem (with some trees estimated at over two thousand years old), from being clearcutting, clearcut. This reserve of is public land and is under the stewardship of the US Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management (BLM). Of the total area, are old-growth redwood stands, surroun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tyler Courier-Times
The ''Tyler Morning Telegraph'' is a daily newspaper based in Tyler, Texas, United States. It is privately owned by M. Roberts Media. History The newspaper begin publishing weekly in 1877 as the ''Weekly Courier''. In 1882, the ''Daily Courier'' began publishing daily. In 1906, the ''Daily Courier'' and the ''Weekly Times'' consolidated into ''The Tyler Courier-Times.'' In 1910, the newspaper sold to the Butler family. The newspaper's Sunday edition is known as the ''Tyler Morning Telegraph''. The ''Tyler Courier-Times'' was a sister afternoon paper published until 1995. The paper uses a white letter ''T'' over a blue circle as its logo, changing from the previous stylized paperboy. The paper bills itself as "the Tyler Paper" in advertising and elsewhere, including its URL. It does not publish on Christmas Day. On November 28, 2018, T.B. Butler Publishing announced the sale of the ''Tyler Morning Telegraph'' to media company, ''M. Roberts Media'' New ownership went into effec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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