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...third largest (232,000) got $440,000 for repairing the Alamo. Austin, the state capital, is relatively small, but has the University of Texas which claimed $300,000. Fort Worth, the fourth city (163,000) had a potent pull in the person of the New Deal's Amon G. Carter and wangled $250,000. Texas' second biggest city, Dallas (260,- 000) ran off with the plum. Not for historical background but because she is Texas' financial capital and offered to put up the most money of her own, she was awarded the right to hold...
...whole crowd in there," he mused undecidedly. Less squeamish, the newshawks put their ears to the door, listened hopefully. Then the door opened and everybody gaped. Out slid thin, hollow-cheeked Presidential Secretary Marvin Mclntyre, followed by Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Lawrence Wood ("Chip") Robert Jr., followed by Amon Carter, Democratic "angel," publisher of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram...
...Carole Lombard was to be on hand as a passenger. But Miss Lombard took a TWA plane instead, as did La Motte Cohu, onetime president of American Airways. Gary Cooper also failed to appear. Among those who did appear were Wallace Beery, Mr. & Mrs. Elliott Roosevelt and Texas Publisher Amon G. Carter...
...tried to go is largely conjectural. An interesting body of legend has accumulated of which the following is a partial analysis: Legend: Cord contributed $1,000,000 to Roosevelt's campaign. Probable fact: $23,000 is nearer right. Legend: Amon Carter of Texas was Cord's prime Washington go-between. Cord stood ready to back Mr. Carter in buying the Washington Post. Fact: Mr. Carter, who sold his Aviation Corp. stock [500 shares] after Cord got control, has never been obliged to Mr. Cord, but knows him well. Legend: Silliman Evans. 4th Assistant Postmaster General, is Cord...
...wild duck with his friends George Palmer Putnam and Paul Collins. As usual he carried no baggage except a toothbrush and shirt in his pocket. He never wears an undershirt. His hat, a floppy, wide-brimmed Borsalino, bears inside the legend: "The Latch-String Always Hangs Outside,' Amon G. Carter, Shady Oaks Farm, Fort Worth...