Opportunity Makers and Self Reliance Echoes
A collection of anecdotes shows individuals who create chances for themselves and help others. stories include a mother who built a dollhouse and sold instructions to Good Housekeeping, Fiorello LaGuardia rising to mayor, and Philip Armour aiding borrowers and lending to competitors during the 1893 panic. Roosevelt era politics and New Deal debates frame a broader business versus government clash.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Good Housekeeping
New York
Ellis Island
New York University
Fiorello LaGuardia
Philip Armour
Armour & Company
Armour
New Deal Focused on Malefactors of Great Wealth
President Roosevelt quoted Theodore Roosevelt to say the administration’s attacks on big business target only malefactors of great wealth, not all wealthy individuals. He refused to name anyone and did not endorse Robert H. Jackson or Harold L. Ickes’ speeches, framing the matter as a New Year parable.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
Monpoly
President Roosevelt
Congress
Pat McCarran
Nevada
Ickes
National Broadcasting Company
America
Ferdinand Lundberg
Hamilton Fish
New York
Jackson
White House
Washington
Robert H. Jackson
Antimonopoly Activites
Interior
Harold L. Ickes
Theodore
Banks Show Increases In Amarillo Clearing Figures
Amarillo Clearing House Association reports total bank clearings for 1937 rising to $77,192,890 up from $58,285,594.56 in 1936. All months except March saw increases with December 1937 surpassing December 1936 by over $100,000. This week’s clearings reached $925,445.67 after a higher holiday period.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amarillo
Amarillo Clearing House Association
Weather forecast for Amarillo and vicinity
The Amarillo area and West Texas by and large stay fair tonight and Saturday. Some light rain or mist may affect the extreme southeast, with cooler conditions in the fast and central portions tonight. New Mexico likewise fair and colder in the northeast tonight. Temperature extremes over the past 24 hours ranged from 42 to 50 degrees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amarillo
Vicinito
West Texas
New Mexico
Chamber optimism cites business recession bottom
The Chamber of Commerce of the United States said the low point of the business recession appeared reached and industrial production could improve going forward. The cautiously optimistic analysis also hinted at the federal government's role in the economic outlook.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chamber of Commerce of the
United States
China expands air fleet as factories near Canton operate
Canton reports China building a formidable air fleet with three aviation factories near the city producing three to four planes daily under eight American experts. The country also imports American British and Russian planes via Haiphong and by rail to Yunnan and Mongolia to Lanchow, strengthening southern and northern fronts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
Canton
China
U.P
Haiphong
Indo-China
Yunnan
Mongolia
Lanchon
Japan
Shansi
By The AP Feature Service 1937 Picture Puzzle
A playful promotional blurb invites readers to test knowledge with a two part puzzle scoring ten points per question. It hints that answers appear on another page and cautions readers to think carefully before guessing.
Cal Finds You Can't Win Over a Mosquito
Cal Farley reports from Camaguey Cuba on a motor trip from Havana along Cuba's Central Highway. He describes the island's scenery including Royal Palms Bougainvillea and sugar cane as the car traverses the long concrete road built during Machado's era at high cost.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Camaguey
Cuba
Havana
Machado
Cranium Crackers Editorial Quiz Prompt
A playful editorial page item presents five riddle style questions with answers and hints at a humor piece. It asks about a question whose answer is always No and other wordplay like a jumping bean, a current Chinese government type, national birds, and a clock timing puzzle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
China
United States
Drouth Rates Extended To March In Nine Counties
The railroad commission extended a 25 percent reduction in livestock feed freight rates to March 1, expanding the drought relief to nine counties: Carson Dallam Hansford Hartley Moore Oldham Potter Randall Sherman. Attorneys for railroads and livestock-feed groups argued legal points in district court over the expansion from the previous Dec 7 order and delays in enforcing the order.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Railroad Commission
Commission
Amarillo
Carson
Dallam
Hansford
Hartley
Moore
Oldham
Potter, Randall and
Sherman
Panhandle
Southwest
Heflin in Unchanged Condition After Oxygen Tent Reused
Former Senator J Thomas Heflin, plagued by lobar pneumonia during a senate campaign, remained described as unchanged as an oxygen tent was used again. Local reporting from Lafayette Alabama notes his persistent illness and ongoing political bid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lafayette
Ala
J. Thomas Heflin
United States Senate
Colorado fans flood Amarillo hotels ahead of Cotton Bowl
Last night in Amarillo the hotel coffee shop buzzed as Colorado fans packed dining rooms and common areas. Officials estimate about 5,000 Coloradans traveled to Dallas for the Colorado Buffaloes versus Rice Owls game, with many staying in Amarillo and leaving cars for trains to Dallas. Hotel managers report full houses and rising arrivals from Colorado.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amarillo
Eyes of
Texas
Glory
Colorado
Dallas
University of Colorado
Rice “Owls
Colorado Chamber of Commerce
Leo Peterson
Herring Hotel
Charles M. Pryor
Mr. Pryor
Galen B. Battey
Capitol Hotel
Potter County Grand Jury Indicts 12 in Gambling Case
The Potter County grand jury returned 12 indictments in Amarillo, seven tied to organized gambling. One person faced four charges including exhibiting a gaming table and renting premises for gaming. Another faced three charges and five others faced two. Indictments cite violations around Nov. 1, 1937.
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Potter County
Grand Jury
Amarillo
Dope Laced Beer Found at East Side Cafe Hot Spot
Police confiscated a bottle of beer in an Amarillo East Side cafe after suspects questioned a Mexican man who urged two girls to drink. Chief chemist said the beer contains a potent drug and lab tests are ongoing. The man is held on a vagrancy charge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amarillo
Wrexham
Jack Wyatt
Big Apple Becomes White House Party Highlight
About 500 guests attended a White House east room party honoring Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr and Anne Lindsay Clark fiancée of John Roosevelt. The event featured dancing into the early hours with the latest craze the big apple and included friends from across the East.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Roosevelt
White House
Roosevelts
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr
Anne Lindsay Clark
John
East
Mexican oil industry ready for showdown with government
Mexico's foreign controlled oil sector rejects a wage arbitration award as impossible to fulfill. Sixteen British and American companies informed 18,000 workers that the board's wage increases to take effect tomorrow would not be paid, signaling a confrontation with the government.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mexico City
Mexico
Machine Perfected To Show Whether Egg Has a Chick
The Alabama agricultural experiment station announced a testing machine that will tell within 15 hours if a hen egg is fertile. Dr. M J Funchess said the device could be worth about 17 million dollars to American poultrymen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Auburn
Ala
Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station
M. J. Funchess
Maverick Club Nears Completion in Amarillo Head Quarters
Ralph Dykeman announces the Amarillo Maverick Club headquarters will be ready by Saturday January 8. Volunteers and donors have funded plumbing and carpentry. plans include a service station run by boys, a library, sports courts, and a future football and baseball field with Santa Fe Railway access nearby.
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Amarillo
Maverick Club
Ralph Dykeman
Mavericks
Phillips Petroleum Company
Albert Randall
Third Avenue
Buchanan Street
Santa Fe Railroad
American Battalions Enter Fighting in Teruel Struggle
Spanish Loyalists rushed the Abraham Lincoln and other international battalions into front lines northwest of Teruel to stem the Nationalist attack, marking a major phase of the Civil War and highlighting volunteers who left prior trades to fight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henday
U.P
International Volunteers
Teruel
Abraham Lincoln
United States
Murderous mutiny on yacht Aafie ends in escape
Federal charges filed against two men from the Aafie cruise in the death of Jack Morgan 28 who killed the yacht owner Dwight Faulding 49. Survivors were questioned as investigators piece together the mutiny tale aboard the yacht.
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Los Angeles
Jack Morgan
Dwight L. Faulding
Allan McElwain
Up— Federal
Aafie
South Seas
Coast Guard
Perseus
Department of Justice
Aaffe
Dwight Faulding
Santa Barbara
Faulding
Morgan
Elsie Berdan
Gertrude Turner
Robert
George Sternack
Robert Horne
South Sea
Feland
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Dale Carnegie
Mark Twain
Mark
McNaught Syndicate
New Deal
Trotsky
Russia
Jerusalem
Ohio
Mississippi Valleys
Hindenburg
Supreme Court
Cal
Cal Farley
Drouth
Heflin
Builders Supply Co
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