Word: amarillo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Santa Fe is one of the nation's last major roads to hold out against union shop contracts, permitted under a 1951 amendment to the Railway Labor Act. Last week, in a courtroom in Amarillo, Texas, Santa Fe President Fred Gurley argued against the union shop in a suit filed by 14 Santa Fe workers. They asked that 16 A.F.L. railroad unions be permanently enjoined from enforcing proposed union shop contracts, and that the union shop be declared illegal...
...firm hand was needed to keep Texas from drowning in oil, and Thompson seemed the man for the job. The youngest lieutenant colonel in the A.E.F. during World War I, he returned to practice law in Amarillo and earned a reputation as a rugged in-fighter when he was elected mayor of Amarillo in 1929. When he was appointed to a vacancy on the commission in June 1932, the price of crude oil had collapsed, down from $1.10 to iof/ a barrel. Although engineers had warned that withdrawal of more than 400,000 bbls. a day would soon kill...
...high point of the year. In 1904, as a raw youth from Texas' back prairie, he went to St. Louis to see the World's Fair, and lost all his money matching pennies with a "very agreeable fellow who said he was a Texan, too. from Amarillo." Ever since, Bob has had a hopeless affair with fairs and carnivals, and today he is the best barker Dallas ever had, and one of the best in the awesome tent show of Texas...
Instead of a posse. Little organized a "postcard shower" from Press readers to cheer up the jailed Texan, helped newspapers in Conley's home town of Amarillo raise a $5,500 fund for his legal defense. Last week, after 37 months in jail, Texan Conley was back home with eight-year-old daughter Lynette, aided in part by the decision of a Massachusetts judge to let Texas settle the custody question...
Before he hurried back to Washington, the President promised an audience of 2,800 Texans in the Amarillo Public Auditorium that he would act fast. "I was born and raised . . . almost at the end of the Chisholm Trail," he said. "It is not strange that I have hurried here . . . We are not going to wait until the last cow has starved to death until something is done. Something is going to be done now." The President assured his hearers that he would act promptly on emergency recommendations of Agriculture Secretary Benson and the governors. As he climbed back into...