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...Married. Amon G. Carter, 68, bumptious, oil-rich publisher of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram; and Minnie Meacham Smith, 45, Fort Worth department-store heiress; he for the third time, she for the second; in Fort Worth...
...Buffalo, the sensation-of-the-week was one Edward O'Dea, who toured downtown gin mills after having publicly taken a poke at U.S. Senator Jim Mead. Fort Worth had something to goggle about, too. Publisher Amon Carter. Fort Worth's native sun, moon and stars who embarrasses even Texans by his Texasity. had reserved two whole floors of the Blackstone Hotel for guests at his daughter's wedding. In Atlanta, the Tulip Show made wonderful conversation: it had been necessary to import 45,000 plants because local flowers had bloomed two weeks too soon...
...dresses quietly, usually in dark suits, and seldom straps on the $375 diamond-studded cowboy belt given him by Fort Worth Publisher Amon G. Carter. His pleasures are simple. He likes to fish; he is most at home among his small circle of intimates, largely members of the Texas delegation in Congress, with whom he swaps stories of Texas history and local politics. He drinks very lightly, does not play poker, reads heavily-history and Westerns...
...Other possible "friends" whom rumor has suggested: Jesse Jones, Amon Carter of Fort Worth's Star-Telegram, John Cowles of the Des Moines Register and the Minneapolis Star...
...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...