Amarillo Treks to World Class Mother's Day Parade
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt heads a Southwest Mother-in-Law Day celebration in Amarillo drawing 125000 spectators. Governors from Texas New Mexico Colorado and Oklahoma ride with her before the world’s largest parade bouquet and float are displayed. The First Lady delivers a capacity lecture at Municipal Auditorium as cameramen and radio networks record the event.
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Amarillo
Fred Post
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Southwest
Boaz
Bethlehem
Municipal Auditorium
Roosevelt
First Lady of the Land
Polk Street
Ross
John A. Hulen
Panhandle Plains
Carl Nesbitt
Texas
Russell Charlton
New Mexico
H. K. Carmichael
John Outland
Fat Stock Show Sets Auctions With Hereford Sale
The twelfth annual Amarillo Fat Stock Show features a 1 PM Hereford sale led by Col Earl Gartin auctioneering 57 bulls and nine females with 330 carrot bulls at private treaty. consignors include E F Adams W F Bennett J P Calliham R L Campbell C M Carpenter Pete Cator R C Chisum and others.
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Hereford Breeders’ Association
Gartin
Col
Earl Gartin
Frank Farley
The
American Hereford Journal
O. R. Peterson
Kansas City Daily Drovers Telegram
Mason King
Globe News
Frazier Biggs
Western Livestock
E. FE. Adams
W. F. Bennett
J. P. Calliham
R. L. Campbell
C. M. Carpenter
Pete Cator
R. C. Chisum
Anna E. Clark
Tom Cobb
O. E. Taussig
Governors Challenge Each Other to Ride in Parade
Gov. Clyde Tingley of New Mexico dared Gov. James V. Allred of Texas to ride the worst bull or wildest horse in Texas. Both men joked about rodeo skills while posing for photos in Amarillo, each sporting colorful cowboy outfits.
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James V. Allred
Clyde Tingley
New Mexico
Texas
Teller Ammons
Colorado
E. W. Marland
Oklahoma
Coe
Tingley
Allred
Amarillo
Alfred
Thousands Cheer First Lady in Panhandle Parade
Thousands on Polk Street cheered Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt as she rode in the Eleanor Blue Buick flanked by Mayor Ross D. Rogers and Mrs. L. O. Thompson while Gov. E. W. Marland of Oklahoma rode in front. A 165 foot parade float shaped like a ship, seating nearly 600 mothers in law, was a major spectacle in yesterday's mammoth celebration.
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Panhandle
Polk Street
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Roosevelt
Eleanor Blue
Ross D. Rogers
L.O. Thompson
E. W. Marland
Oklahoma
Lawrence Hagg
House Revolts Against Administration By Killing Surtax on Corporations
The House voted 180 to 124 to strike the so called 1B tax on closely held firms in a revolt against the administration. The move sidetracked the revenue bill and could prevent restoring the surtax, a blow to administration plans for $30 to $45 million in revenue. Speaker and committee leaders faced surprise splits within Democratic ranks as talks of a veto hovered and President Roosevelt’s position was contrasted with the tax’s fate.
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Washington
House
Doughton
North Carolina
Ways and Means
Roosevelt
Democratic Committee
Coughton
President
Treasury
White House
Incomparable Bouquet Delights Roosevelts Parade Crowd
Mrs. Franklin D Roosevelt received a record breaking bouquet at the Mother-in-Law parade on Polk Street. The 2500 pound rose arrangement measured 16 by 9 by 5 feet and drew a guard of 61 Texans as thousands watched. The First Lady praised the gift amid crowd rush for souvenirs.
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Lewis P. Fields
Guard of Honor
Fields
Panhandle- Plains
Ama
Ja. Roosevelt
Pelk Street
Rear Guards Of Big Parade Report Delegations
Journalists describe a chaotic mission to cover parade delegations in town for Mother-in-Law Day. Facing flat tires and limited transport, the reporters struggle to reach groups including Shamrock attendees rumored to be Irish yet mixed with German Swedish and Bohemian ancestry.
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Vance Johnson
Vincent Lockhart
Pilawalae
Shamrock
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James Allred
Mrs. Roosevelt
E. W Marland
Walter A. Haxman
Kansas
Plains
By Jack Sitton
West Texas
West 100Th Meridian
Thuracoe
Weiaues Iga
Eleanor Roosevelt
McCormick Co
Tex Keirsey
Thirteenth Avenue
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