Word: amon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tubby Publisher Evans has a remarkable record for putting his projects across in a big way. At 19, Silliman Evans became managing editor of a temperance sheet, later worked for fabulous Texas Publisher Amon Carter. (He was called "the alltime, all-American Diesel engine of Texas reporting.") In Washington, D.C., as Star-Telegram bureau chief, Evans played shrewd poker and shrewder politics with such admiring pals as Jack Garner, Jesse Jones, Jim Farley (who rewarded him with a Fourth Assistant Postmaster Generalship for helping swing the Garner delegates to Roosevelt in the 1932 convention...
...have to egg-walk around many political considerations when it begins its hearings scheduled for next month. Of the 290 stations in Dixie, 125 are owned by newspapers, nearly all of which are Democratic. Among Administration friends who may be put on the spot: Jesse Jones (Houston Chronicle, KTRH), Amon Carter (Fort Worth Star-Telegram, WBAP, KGKO), James M. Cox (Dayton, Ohio News; Springfield, Ohio News; Springfield, Ohio Sun; Miami, Fla. News; Atlanta Journal; WHIG, Dayton, Ohio; WIOD, Miami, Fla.; WSB, Atlanta...
Divorced. Amon Giles Carter, gusty, high-heeled publisher of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram; by his second wife, Nenetta Burton Carter; after 22 years of marriage; in Fort Worth...
Sued for Divorce. Amon Giles Carter, 60, fiercely hospitable, belligerently civic-minded Fort Worth publisher-promoter ("Dictator of Cowtown"); by Nenetta Burton Carter, 45-ish. She used to help welcome his hordes of guests at fabled "Shady Oaks," but asked for divorce on the grounds that her peripatetic husband's "absence from home and . . . failure to exhibit toward her ... affection and constant kindness" had "impaired her health and strength." Carter was divorced from his first wife...
...their jobs by removal of the offices to Denver. He even suggested that Texas, whose railroad taxes were 50% lower than Colorado's, might well up F. W. & D. C.'s tax bill to the point where the anticipated operations saving would disappear. "You, Mr. Budd," cried Amon Carter, "have cast the die, with utter contempt for fair and decent treatment of both your faithful employes and old customers. We use the word 'old' advisedly...