Texas Centennial Opens With Bold Plans Across State
Texas gears up for a Centennial year in 1936 with a central Dallas exposition and nationwide celebrations. Funds from a Centennial Coin sale support a museum while secondary events unfold in San Antonio Houston Goliad Brenham and other historic sites as millions visit for trade culture and tourism.
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Texas
Dallas
Mexico
United States
San Antonio
Alamo
Houston
San Jacinto
Brenham
Nacogdoches
Huntsville
Gonzales
Galveston
Lone Star State
Petticoat Fever and De Luxe in Broadway Silly Season
New York notes the spring silly season opens with Mark Reed’s Petticoat Fever featuring Dennis King and a wry Arctic romance. Also reviewed is De Luxe by Bromfield and Gearnon led by Jo Mielziner with an all-star cast, but critics call it pretentious and dull.
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New York
Labrador
Mark Reed
Dascom Dinsmore
Arctic
Dinsmore
Dennis King
Roe of Dinsmore
Oma Munson
Doris Dalton
Ethel
Leo G. Carroll
Sir James
Louis Bromfield
John Gearnon
Chester Erskine
Jo Mielziner
Violet Heming
Ann Andrews
Blanche King
Melvyn Dougas
Alan Bunce
Cora Witherspoon
Elsa Maxwell
Pep
DeAlbrew
O'Neill
P Scott Fitzgerald
Senator Smith seeks Senate probe of cotton market drop
Senator Smith of South Carolina introduces a resolution for a full Senate investigation into a sharp cotton price drop this week. He asks for a $20,000 appropriation to the Agriculture Committee, aiming to subpoena witnesses and obtain market records. The panel would report back with findings on alleged sinister forces behind the $10 base tumble.
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Washington
Smith
Democrat
South Carolina
Senate
Senate Agriculture Committee
Hoover
Agriculture Committee
Relief rolls show drop in urban relief population in February
Washington reports 142 counties indicate February urban relief total at 2,193,073 families and individuals, down from January 2,197,380. Federal relief cost falls to 68.6 million from 75.9 million due partly to fewer February days. Hopkins cites 167 million for March not all to be spent. state and local contributions rise to 50 million monthly from 30 million. A Texas education official G W McDaniel visited Amarillo for a conference with Potter County Superintendent Carl Clift.
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Washington
Harry L. Hopkins
Hopkins
Relief Administration
Clift
State Department of Education
G. W. McDaniel
Austin
Amarillo
Potter County
Carl Clifft
McDaniel
Text Books
Tobacco aging boosts Chesterfield quality for years
Four years of tobacco crops 1931 to 1934 fill 4% of warehouse space for Chesterfield cigarettes. Two and a half years of ageing mellow the tobacco, making Chesterfields milder and sweeter, an eighty five million dollar reason why smokers prefer the brand.
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Chesterfield
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