Word: amon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...target" of TIME, Publisher Amon Carter of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram is one of those positive, colorful characters to whose deeds and utterances legend speedily attaches. He was the central figure of TIME'S report of Postmaster General Farley's junket to Texas last month. Let readers seeking a sharper picture of Publisher Carter reread TIME'S report of Oct. 30 and compare it point by point with Publisher Carter's auto-interpretation, published in full (unedited) below...
...story that James E. Ferguson, as you stated, offered a reward of $500 to any police officer that would arrest Amon Carter, is as real as Cinderella and the glass slipper, and quite as untrue as the innuendoes in which your article abounds. It is doubtless true that had such reward been offered, the rush of police officers would have been far greater than that of the A & M line...
Eighth-you further state that "at Houston in 1928 Carter threatened to beat up Rev. J. Frank Norris, a Protestant preacher, who opposed the Presidential nomination of Catholic Al Smith. When Smith was nominated, Amon Carter's exuberance knew no bounds. In his exhilaration he shot his six-gun through the door of an elevator in the Rice Hotel." This entire statement is a pure fabrication, false, slanderous, libelous and vicious...
...that a number of Dallas people are somewhat peeved that TIME went off on a tangent, or so it seems to them, in its issue of Oct. 30. They feel that all the power and the glory of Jim Farley's Texas visit should not have gone to Amon G. Carter, who played a part but not the whole show...
TIME neglected any mention of the splendid entertainment at Anacacho Ranch, the beautiful estate of Ralph W. Morrison 50 miles from the Mexican border. It was here that Will Rogers put on a real rope-twirling show:, taking a glass out of Amon Carter's hand and throwing Airman Vidal and Treasury-man Roberts, two former football stars. Here also Jim Farley rode a horse for the first time, he said, in his life, getting on with some difficulty while a secretary held his watch. Will Rogers rode the same horse, Edna May's King, retired undefeated champion...