Word: junket
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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...
First-you say that "Publisher Carter reputedly financed the Garner-Farley junket over American Airways, of which he is a heavy stockholder." Permit me to say that I own no stock in the American Airways, though at one time I was the possessor of 500 shares, which I disposed of many months...
...Atlanta. Aboard the plane were Comptroller of the 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...
...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...
...would drop in and visit him in Havana. ... The President told me he saw no reason why I should not carry out my original plans. I have not been ordered to Havana. ... The Cuban situation will continue to be handled from Washington by the President." Secretary Swanson's junket was further deflated 48 hours later when the Indianapolis swung around Morro Castle and dropped anchor almost over the spot where the Maine was sunk in Havana Harbor. At sight of the big grey man-o'-war excited Cubans along the waterfront began to shout: "Don't welcome...