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  • Date > 1969-06-30 (remove)

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Oral history transcript, Walter G. Hall, interview 1 (I), 6/30/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • organized labor and a few intellectuals and liberals in Galveston came to feel apparently that our efforts offered the most hope for some changes in Galveston. We endeavored to elect Jim Simpson, now a prominent attorney in Texas City, as county attorney
  • Biographical information; Dean Colwell; Al Smith; first political speech; 1932 and 1936 support of FDR; Jim Simpson
Oral history transcript, Donald C. Cook, interview 1 (I), 6/30/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • investigation? C: Yes, but I had become so deeply involved here that it just wasn't possible for me to do that. B: Did you once again recommend an alternative? C: Yes. I thought that Ed Weisl, who is a partner of Simpson, Thatcher and Bartlett, would