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Judge Roy Hofheinz was a driving force behind the effort to obtain the Major League Baseball franchise for Houston, along with oilman Craig F. Cullinan, Jr. who had been involved with the failed attempted " Continental League " and who was chairman of the Houston Sports Association executive committee, a syndicate of local businessmen dedicated to bringing a pro baseball team to southeastern Texas.
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" Bob " Smith, a prominent oilman and real estate magnate in Houston who was brought in for his financial resources ; and Judge Roy Hofheinz, a former Mayor of Houston and Harris County Judge who was recruited for his salesmanship and political style.
With Judge Roy Hofheinz now the sole owner of the franchise and the new venue complete, the Colt. 45s moved into their new domed stadium, the Astrodome in 1965.
With the $ 38 million deficit of the Astrodome, control of the Astrodomain was passed from Judge Roy Hofheinz to GE Credit and Ford Motor Credit.
She appeared in several high-profile films from the 1950s to 1970s, including The Hucksters ( 1947 ), Show Boat ( 1951 ), The Snows of Kilimanjaro ( 1952 ), The Barefoot Contessa ( 1954 ), Bhowani Junction ( 1956 ), On the Beach ( 1959 ), Seven Days in May ( 1964 ), The Night of the Iguana ( 1964 ), The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean ( 1972 ), Earthquake ( 1974 ), and The Cassandra Crossing ( 1976 ).
She also appeared briefly as Lillie Langtry at the end of The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean ( 1972 ) with Paul Newman and Jacqueline Bisset, and in The Blue Bird ( 1976 ) with Elizabeth Taylor and Jane Fonda.
Avery was said to be a descendant of Judge Roy Bean.
Judge Roy Bean ( 1825 – 1903 ) operated a general store and saloon west of the Pecos River in Langtry, where the original Bean building is displayed at a Texas Tourist Bureau station.
Bean is the subject of the 1956 syndicated television series Judge Roy Bean, starring Edgar Buchanan, and the 1972 film, The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean, with Paul Newman in the featured role.
* 1884 Langtry community established, named by Judge Roy Bean after Lillie Langtry.
Judge Roy Bean is said to have operated a saloon at Sanderson.
These included a 1948 cover of Roy Brown's " Good Rocking Tonight ", " Good Morning Judge " and " All She Wants to Do Is Rock ".
* The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean
* Judge Roy Bean, operated a merchandise store and saloon on Main Street in Pinos Altos ( just north of Silver City )
Famous early residents include: Joshua H. Bean, brother of Judge Roy Bean and the first mayor of San Diego, CA ; Orlando C. Phelps, one of the few surviving members of the Mier Expedition ; Edwin Rainwater, hero of the Texas Revolution ; Edward R. Hord, an influential early South Texas statesman ; and John L. Haynes, a native Virginian politician and writer who was an outspoken anti-secessionist and strong proponent of Mexican-American rights.
* The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean ( 1972 )
In 1972, he appeared in The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean, and was one of the many stars featured in the 1974 hit Murder on the Orient Express.
He had his first intimate heterosexual experience at the age of 39 while working on the 1972 film The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean with an actress who also appeared in the film.
Jersey Lily, Judge Roy Bean's combination courthouse / saloon, offers certified comical " genuine illegal hitchin '" alongside pickles, candy, and sports / soft drinks.
Other books of the Lonesome Dove series feature more-prominent historical events and locations such as the Santa Fe Expedition, Great Raid of 1840 and the King Ranch, and characters such as Buffalo Hump, John Wesley Hardin, and Judge Roy Bean.
" Merry England " is not a wholly consistent vision but rather a revisited England which the late Oxford folklorist Roy Judge described as " a world that has never actually existed, a visionary, mythical landscape, where it is difficult to take normal historical bearings.
Opening on June 1, 1968, AstroWorld was originally developed and constructed as part of the Astrodomain, the brainchild of local philanthropist and former Houston mayor Judge Roy Hofheinz, who intended it to complement The Astrodome.
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Colt Stadium, however, was just a temporary field until Judge Hofheinz could build an indoor stadium.
Roy Mark Hofheinz ( April 10, 1912 – November 22, 1982 ), popularly known as Judge Hofheinz or " The Judge ", was State Representative from 1934 to 1936, County Judge of Harris County, Texas from 1936 to 1944, and mayor of the city of Houston, Texas from 1953 to 1955.
In the fall of 1967, Irving Feld, Israel Feld, and Judge Roy Mark Hofheinz of Texas, together with backing from Richard C. Blum, the founder of Blum Capital, bought the company outright from North and the Ringling family interests for $ 8 million.
AstroWorld, built by Judge Roy Hofheinz in Houston, Texas, was the first park to be acquired in 1975.
The building is named for the late wife, Irene Cafcalas " Dene " Hofheinz, of Houston politician, businessman and philanthropist Judge Roy Hofheinz, who is a UH alumnus, while the court is named for hall of fame and former Cougars coach Guy V. Lewis.
However, Judge Roy Hofheinz did not want it to happen or allow it because he owned all the television and radio rights in Texas for Astros ballgames.
" Bob " Smith, a Houston rancher and philanthropist ( best known for partnering with Judge Roy Hofheinz, among others, in the early 1960's to create what would become the Houston Astros Major League Baseball franchise ).
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Under the 1939 Code this item was permitted to survive a tax-free reorganization in the Stanton Brewery case, but only over the dissent of Judge Learned Hand, who wrote the majority opinion in the Sansome case, a leading case requiring carryover of earnings and profits in a non-taxable reorganization.
The September-October term jury had been charged by Fulton Superior Court Judge Durwood Pye to investigate reports of possible `` irregularities '' in the hard-fought primary which was won by Mayor-nominate Ivan Allen Jr..
Several defendants in the Summerdale police burglary trial made statements indicating their guilt at the time of their arrest, Judge James B. Parsons was told in Criminal court yesterday.
Barnard, who pleaded no defense to manslaughter and hit-run charges, was fined $500 by Judge Warren K. Hess, and placed on two years' probation providing he does not drive during that time.
The charge that the federal indictment of three Chicago narcotics detail detectives `` is the product of rumor, combined with malice, and individual enmity '' on the part of the federal narcotics unit here was made yesterday in their conspiracy trial before Judge Joseph Sam Perry in federal District court.
The defendant, William L. Stickney 3, 23, of 3211 Park pl., Evanston, who pleaded guilty to reckless driving, also was ordered by Judge James Corcoran to attend the Evanston traffic school each Tuesday night for one month.
He was found guilty of reckless driving yesterday by Traffic Judge George T. Murphy, who continued his no-driving probation for another year and ordered him to spend 15 days in the Detroit House of Correction.
The award was made by Judge Fred B. Perkins who heard their petition without a jury by agreement of the parties.
Judge John B. Molinari was named chairman of the executive committee.
Sitting quietly on an equally big pork barrel was another Judge Smith ally, Georgia's Carl Vinson, chairman of the Armed Services Committee.
Judge Patricia A. Seitz found that the " virtual ticket counter " of the website was a virtual construct and hence not a " public place of accommodation ".
The case was legally resolved on October 19, 1973 when U. S. District Judge Earl R. Larson held the ENIAC patent invalid, ruling that the ENIAC derived many basic ideas from the Atanasoff – Berry Computer.
Mike Judge has stated Van Driessen was his favorite character, after Beavis, to voice.
In an interview included with the recent Mike Judge Collection DVD set, Judge said he was uncertain if some of the earlier episodes still existed in their uncensored form.
This part of the show was mostly improvised by Mike Judge.
Later, in a Rolling Stone interview, Mike Judge was asked if Daria is coming back and he said, " No. There's sort of a cameo in one episode.
John Altschuler, formerly a writer for King of the Hill, told a Rolling Stone reporter that he saw signs that Mike Judge was thinking of reviving Beavis and Butt-Head.
It was initially rumored that Judge was working on 30 new episodes for the network.
Mike Judge was not credited as a producer of this series and has said he was not involved with it at all, except to give permission for the use of the character.
However, its release was cancelled at the last moment at the demand of Judge, who owned approval rights for video releases of the series.
According to Judge, the History set was made up of episodes that he had previously rejected for home video release and had been prepared without his knowledge or consent.
The U. S. argument was affirmed, however, by the dissenting opinion of ICJ member U. S. Judge Schwebel, who concluded that in supporting the contras, the U. S. acted lawfully in collective self-defence in El Salvador's support.
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