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...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...
...Edouard Herriot, by now a rising power in the Radical-Socialist Party, remembered his prize pupil and got him a seat in the Chamber of Deputies. He was a member of Herriot's junket to Soviet Russia, joined the Herriot Cabinet in 1924 as Minister of Colonies. Never catching the national spotlight, his influence in the party and in France grew & grew. He served in the 1926 Herriot Cabinet, fought ultra-Nationalist Raymond Poincare persistently, was elected president of the Radical-Socialist Party in 1927, became leader of a party faction separate from his old teacher last winter...
...Vernon, la.) Dr. Arthur Holley Compton, co-winner of the Nobel prize in physics for 1927 (cosmic rays), skidded on the wet pavement of the Lincoln Highway, crashed into another car, demolished his own, escaped serious injury. Hospitalized were his two companions of last summer's cosmic ray junket to the Andes (TIME, March 28): his wife, with cuts about the body and head, a nail through her left hand, and their son Arthur Alan, with a lacerated scalp...