Word: farleys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Currency O'Connor. Director for Air Regulation Vidal, Richard Roper, son of the Secretary of Commerce, Oilman James A. Moffett of the NRA and roly-poly little Fourth Assistant Postmaster General Silliman Evans, onetime Fort Worth newspaperman, who organized the junket. At At lanta, Postmaster General Farley and RFC Chairman Jesse H. Jones were picked up. Variously billed as "The Democratic Good-Will Tour of Texas," "The Garner-Farley Texas Trip" and (by capital wags) "The Farley Expedition to Rediscover Jack Garner," the voyagers spent the night at Jackson, Miss. Having paused at Meridian to dedicate a post office...
...have fun with in Texas is Publisher Amon Giles Carter of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, who reputedly financed the Garner-Farley junket over American Airways, of which he is a heavy stockholder. As is his wont, he promptly gave everybody in the party a $20 Stetson hat. Born 53 years ago at Crafton. Tex., Amon Carter used to sell sandwiches on the station platform at Bowie, newspapers on the Fort Worth streetcorner where now rises the office building of the Star-Telegram, which he bought eight years ago with money made in cattle, oil, advertising. The presses which thunder...
Host Carter marshalled the Farley-Garner party out to his box at Arlington. Downs to witness the rebirth of horse-race betting in Texas. There an unforeseen unpleasantness occurred. While Host Carter was out making a bet, Governor Miriam (''Ma") Ferguson and her husband James, who was impeached as Governor in 1917, popped in uninvited to chat with Postmaster General Farley. The Carter v. Ferguson feud is an old one. At a football game in 1925, Amon Carter, full of high spirits, paraded back & forth behind the Fergusons' seats crowing in behalf of the man who succeeded...
...Lake Worth where Publisher Carter & wife do much of their entertaining, generally burn far into the night. The tall, lusty host never serves beer because he dislikes it, but there is always an abundance of Texas corn and Scotch, his favorite drinks, which he usually takes neat. Here the Farley party, joined by Funnyman Will Rogers, was welcomed...
...most exciting finish of the fall sculling regatta finals held yesterday afternoon, Richard G. Ames '34, rowing in the half-mile narrow comp race, nosed out John A. Carley '36 by a margin of a scant two feet. Farley got away to a poor start, but soon made up the ground he had lost: 15 yards from the finish he was leading by a quarter of a length, when Ames, in a sudden sprint, shot ahead to take the race. The time was 3 minutes, 45 seconds...