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Oral history transcript, G. Mennen Williams, interview 1 (I), 3/8/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

UAW person who was there was Leonard I think that most of the operation on the floor, in addition to myself, would have been Neil Staebler, maybe Margaret Price. F: Woodcock was a bit milder in his opposition to Johnson than Reuther? W: I really

Oral history transcript, Ray Roberts, interview 1 (I), 6/9/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of the Works Progress Adtninistration, it was to start with. The NYA [National Youth Administration] catne along shortly thereafter, which was sort of a junior WPA, and appointed a district director named Z. Starr Armstrong. I was single. Of course, Mr

Oral history transcript, Edie Adams, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

what it was on. The black jazz man was there, so it was the black--I can't remember. F: Ellington? A: No. F: Louis Armstrong? A: No, the other one. Dizzy Gillespie, Crazy Dizzy Gillespie. I remember that one very well because Dizzy began

Oral history transcript, Joseph H. Skiles, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

suggested the idea of having FDR stop and dedicate one of these roadside parks on his way to Dallas? Do you recall that? S: No, I do not. I would guess that Z. Starr Armstrong might have been the particular district director, I think, that would have

Oral history transcript, Emily Crow Selden, interview 1 (I), 1/10/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Davis Crow. We called him Davis, because it's Crow Junior. And brother Jack, whose real name is John, John Armstrong Crow, was there part of the time. He finished high school very young, went one year to SMU and then to Chapel Hill, to the University

Oral history transcript, Robert N. Ginsburgh, interview 1 (I), 6/2/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

] Colbert, I guess he was a captain at the time, U.S. Navy, had already been there for about a year. I replaced an army colonel, later general, DeWitt Armstrong. When Colbert left, he in turn was replaced by another army colonel. G: I see. What was a normal

Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 9 (IX), 11/18/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in that? J: He passed a law, a blue sky law that ran them out of Texas. come in now under Esso or Humble. They But that's quite interesting because I was offered a job as vice president with Standard Oil down in Venezuela one time. Tom Armstrong [?J, he

Oral history transcript, James A. Farley, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

that, you know. He was quite a character. one occasion I went down and visited him with my son Jimmy. On Jimmy was about eighteen at the time, and we spent the night around the ranch there with Dick and a number of others--Tom Armstrong and a number

Oral history transcript, Walter Washington and Bennetta Washington, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Oral history transcript, Harold Barefoot Sanders, interview 1 (I), 1/1/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Europe for about three months, came back to Dallas and practiced law "tvith my dad's firm; it was Storey, Sanders, Sherrill, Armstrong. That firm went separate ways in 1952, and I went with I some other lawyers--Lewis, Lefkowitz and John Green in 1952

Oral history transcript, Charles P. Little, interview 1 (I), 7/24/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

later years. G: I've got a note that in 1935 there were four district offices: in Austin, one in Houston, one in Dallas and one in Lubbock. one Z. S. Armstrong was in charge of Dallas; Joe Skiles was in Austin; W. O. Alexander-L: Now that was in 1935