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Oral History Interview with Luciel Leonard, August 3, 1995

Description: Interview with Luciel Leonard, concerning her employment at the Nocona Boot Company in Nocona, Texas from 1939 to 1983, and her recollections of its founder, Ms. Enid Justin, the attempts to unionize during the 1950s, and the changes in the product line.
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Date: August 3, 1995
Creator: Lipscomb, Carol & Leonard, Luciel

Oral History Interview with Marguerite Oklahoma Holcomb, August 23, 1995

Description: Interview with Marguerite Holcomb, a former employee of the Nocona Boot Company from 1952 to 1976, concerning her employment at the Nocona Boot Company in Nocona, Texas, and her recollections of its founder, Ms. Enid Justin. Holcomb discusses employer-employee relations, boot-making, fashion changes, union activities, expansion and factory outlets, and Ms. Enid's civic activities.
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Date: August 23, 1995
Creator: Lipscomb, Carol & Holcomb, Marguerite Oklahoma

Oral History Interview with Steve A. Pickens, May 30, 1996

Description: Interview with Steve Pickens, a businessman and former President of the Nocona Boot Company, concerning his experiences as a financial analyst for Justin Industries, comptroller for Nocona Boot Company from 1983 to 1984, general manager of Nocona from 1984 to 1987, and President of Nocona from 1987 to 1995. Pickens comments on Nocona's founder, Enid Justin; the "Urban Cowboy" craze and plant expansion in 1981; the reorganization of the boot manufacturing process; marketing and advertising strat… more
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Date: May 30, 1996
Creator: Lipscomb, Carol & Pickens, Steve A.
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Oral History Interviews with Olgie Ivey, Mary Louise Ivey Bardas, and Ben Ivey Jr., 1979

Description: Interviews with Ben Ivey Jr., Olgie (Mrs. Ben) Ivey Sr., and Mary Louise Ivey Bardas, from Denton, Texas. The interviewees discuss Ben Ivey Sr's business ventures in Denton, including their family history, each's upbringing and education, the history and operations of businesses owned by the family, life in Denton, neighbors, and local government.
Date: {1979-10-17,1979-11-14}
Creator: Jenkins, Floyd; Ivey, Olgie; Bardas, Mary Louise Ivey & Ivey, Ben, Jr.
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Oral History Interviews with Walter White, 1975

Description: Interview with Walter White concerning his experiences as a federal labor mediator and conciliator. White speaks of his his thirty-year career with the U.S. Conciliation Service and the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, as well as his early boyhood employment with International Harvester Company. He discusses the Depression and New Deal, the Kansas Employment Service, his employment with U.S. Potash Company and experiences with Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers Union, and his employment… more
Date: 1975-04-16/1975-05-21
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E.; Dunn, J. D. & White, Walter, 1906-
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