Exam II
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each of the black spaces below before clicking
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| Haskell Karp | show 🗑
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| show | Cooley and his associates performed the 1st heart transplant in the United States on May 3, 1968, at St. Luke's Hospital. The 1st transplant patient, Everett Thomas, lived for 204 days with the heart from a 15 yr old girl.He did the Karp surgery too.
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| show | DeBakey and his team performed the first successful coronary artery bypass graft procedure on Nov 23, 1964. By the mid-1980s more than one-half million coronary bypass surgeries were performed each year in the United States. President of BCM 1969 to 1979.
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| show | June 12, 1943 BCM moved to Houston as an alternative to relinquishing administrative control or losing fiscal support in Dallas. The move was funded by the MD Anderson Foundation.
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| Jan De Hartog | show 🗑
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| show | Frank E. Anderson and William Lockhart Clayton, cotton merchants, and Monroe D. Anderson, a banker. By 1945 it was called the largest buyer, seller, storer, and shipper of raw cotton in the world.
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| Monroe Dunaway Anderson | show 🗑
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| show | 1919 founded The Informer. Also edited The Watchman, The Observer and The Defender in his lifetime.Founding member of Houston's NAACP chapter.
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| show | Kind of a badass. 1st secretary of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, 1st commanding officer of the Women's Army Corps, and chairman of the board of the Houston Post, pulled husband from burning plane, militant feminist.
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| Jesse Jones | show 🗑
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| Hattie May White | show 🗑
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| show | 2 terms as county judge and mayor, was impeached but didn't "recognize the impeachment" defeated by holcombe, built astrodome, astroworld, hotels, houston sports association
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| John Thomas "Tom" Biggers | show 🗑
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| show | Sterling, Fondren, Blaffer, Farish, etc, now a part of Exxon, largest producer of crude during WWII, first humble co. home office was at Main and Polk, now exxon has a 45 story building
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| Albert Thomas | show 🗑
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| show | Big-time wildcatter in the Galveston area, developed commercial real estate around the coast, began off shore drilling, purchased, planned, developed The Woodlands
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| show | Houston had one of strongest chapters, telephone system, elected to school board--resulted in firings, etc, afraid of communism, desegregation, new practices, wanted to protect traditional way of life
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| show | Administrator of NASA who selected Houston--Rice U. was to transfer a 1,000-acre tract to the govt for the center.Webb and other NASA officials denied all charges and suggestions of political influence, pointed to Houston's benefits for the center.
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| show | King of the Wildcatters, gave away 93% of his fortune, ultra conservative, very involved in politics (racist, anti-communist, anti-semitic, etc), supported hospitals and UH
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| show | was an assistant to Cullinan, chaired city planning commission, developed river oaks, promoted zoning and planning, supported civic center and country club, liked UT?!
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| show | Founded Houston Symphony orchestra, founded hogg foundation for mental health, elected to the school board where she fought for equal pay for all teachers (regardless of sex or race), texas historical commission, appointed to plan national cultural center
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| show | Built by Glenn McCarthy, insane opening, bought by hilton, biggest hotel in the US, biggest swimming pool in the world, emblematic, destroyed for a parkinglot in the med center
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| Frank Sharp | show 🗑
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| show | deputy superintendent who was investigated by the minute women, cleared of charges, still fired because he was a controversial figure
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| Cullinan | show 🗑
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| show | Part of Anderson Clayton Co. Opposed New Deal
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| show | Timber!Opposed to labor unions and the new deal, very racist/antisemitic, etc
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| Felix Tijerena | show 🗑
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| Holcombe | show 🗑
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