Queen Mary at 64 and the meaning of greatness
Arthur Brisbane discusses Queen Mary turning 64 and the British Empire toasting her steadfast decorum. He weighs Will Durant’s list of greatest thinkers and poets, questions definitions of greatness, and cites advertising rhetoric and a tale of ashes scattered in symbolic acts.
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Queen Mary
England
Mary
Will Durant
Voltaire
Definissons
Mr. Durant
Archimedes
Plato
Pasteur
St. Thomas Aquinas
Fulton
Immanuel Kant
Stephenson
Locomotive
Aristote
Villon
Virgin Mary
Walt Whitman
Plains Wheat Thirst Cooled by Downpours
Rain swept the Panhandle boosting expectations of good yields in scattered areas. Amarillo saw 1.13 inches, with heavier falls from Amarillo to Borger and north toward Panhandle. Some South Plains wheat too damaged to benefit from further rains.
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Panhandle
Santa Fe
Booker and
Follette
Perryton
Spearman
North Plains
Lubbock
South Plains
Chain Wedding Career Is Laid To Low Mood
Tennessee Governor Henry H Horton faced an impeachment report from a House committee stating Impeachment is warranted and a 65 page article was compiled under state conspiracy laws. Calvin Burke, 50, confessed to a nationwide chain marriage scheme to steal jewelry and cash from five wives and four other women as postal inspectors tracked him across the United States. Burke used multiple aliases and was arrested after trying to collect mail at a hotel desk. a Dallas woman Billie Lee Stevens and her son were detained as Burke’s confederate.
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Henry H. Horton
Nashville
Tenn
Tennessee House of Representatives
John Tipton
Memphis
O.R
Calvin Burke
Burke
New York
Billie Lee Stevens
Dallas
Texas
Stevens
Jim E. Howard
E. J. Perryman
Atlanta
Terre Haute
Ind
George EB. Adams
L. E. Remington
Fort Worth
Chicago
Gene A. Dawson
Maud Hurdle
Bluefield
W. Va
Columbus
Ohio
James Allison
Estell Wilcox
Waterloo
Iowa
St. Louis
James Collins
Hoover to honor war dead with Memorial address at Valley Forge
President Hoover will travel to Philadelphia for a Union League Club dinner then drive with Mrs. Hoover to Valley Forge for Decoration Day services. He will deliver the Memorial address on Washington’s headquarters site and inspect the two story rock structure before returning to Washington by train. Arlington National Cemetery will hold its usual Decoration Day services at the Unknown Soldier tomb during his absence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Hoover
America
White House
Valley Forge
George Washington
Philadelphia
Mr. Hoover
Union League Club
Arlington National Cemetery
Budget Plan Adopted by Texas Club Women
The 12th annual Texas Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs convention opened at First Christian Church after a venue change from Herring Hotel due to seating limits. About 200 delegates attended with more arriving. a $2,000 budget and by law amendments were adopted. A new director-at-large office was created for the outgoing president, district chairmen will be titled districtors, and a $10 donation was approved for Lena Lake Forest Fund. A post convention executive meeting will decide the 1931 convention city.
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Texas Federation of Business and Professional Women’s Clubs
First Christian Church
Herring Hotel
Texas
Lena Lake Forest Fund
Schilling Renamed On U S Farm Board
President Hoover reappointed William F Schilling of Minnesota to the Federal Farm Board. The move came as Charles C Teague finished duties as vice chairman and fruit and vegetable member, with TEague's resignation expected to be accepted soon.
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Washington
Hoover
Wm. F. Schilling
Minnesota
Federal Farm Board
Schilling
Charles C. Teague
Teague
Gas hearing on plea postponed in Amarillo
Public hearing on petitions for repealing the Amarillo Gas Company condemnation resolution will be postponed to next week. The delay follows a request from a voters committee with supporters and opponents of the referendum, and the city commission will still meet tonight. Committee members include Ed Burran Charles Keffer C B Reeder G T Oliver and W N Coopers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
City Commission
Amarillo Gas Company
Ernest Thompson
Committee of Voters
Thompson
Commission
Ed Burran
Charles Keffer
C. 3B. Reeder
G. T. Oliver
W. N. Coopers
Piccard Plans Further Upper Air Trips After Record Flight
Prof Auguste Piccard and Charles Kippy, elated after reaching 52 500 feet, plan more ascents in the Austrian Alps to study the upper air. Piccard, a Brussels University professor, says the flight proved the stratosphere is navigable and life could exist ten miles above Earth.
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Gurgl
Austria
Auguste Piccard
Charles Kippy
Austrian Alps
Piccard
University of
Brussels
Piccards
East Texas oil prorations on hold amid debate
An East Texas central advisory committee meets to decide oil flow allowances for the next proration period. Charles F. Roeser chaired the session with Carl Estes and Ed A. Landreth invited to attend as talks hinge on whether allowable output can rise to 200 000 to 300 000 barrels daily.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tyler
U.P
East Texas
East Texas Central Advisory Committee
Charles F. Roeser
Fort Worth
Carl Estes
Ed A. Landreth
Roeser
Estes
Railroad Commission
Death in DallasHotel double suicide pact found
In Dallas a 25 year old from Verona New Jersey Thomas E Davis was shot and killed and 24 year old Fannie Anderson of Graham Texas wounded in a hotel room in what notes say was a death pact to be buried together The pair checked in Monday with letters addressed to whom it may concern The hotel notes bearing the handwriting of Davis and Anderson reveal their plan to die together local authorities report
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Dallas
Texas
Thomas E. Davis
Verona
N. J
Fannie Anderson
Graham
Davis
Tommy
Fannie
Mystery Seen in Boy's Death in Lynn County
Orville James, 15, of New Lynn, died in a Lubbock hospital from a base skull fracture after being found unconscious near his home. He and a friend had attended a party on Wednesday night. he was believed injured while riding home between 11 p.m. and midnight after his companion left him. The incident remains a mystery with the horse injury suspected.
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Lubbock
Orville James
New Lynn
Lynn County
C. M. James
James
Dumas Hiails Road Opening
Moore County celebrates the completion of a railway connecting Dumas and the world with a morning Santa Fe train at the Dumas depot. Thousands attend a parade with Amarillo and Dalhart delegates, Noel McDade delivers welcome, and speakers include Wilbur C. Hawk and congressmen Marvin Jones and Arthur C. Johnson.
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Dumas
Moore County
Santa Fe
North Plains
Amarillo
142Nd
Dalhart
Eee
Noel McDade
Ernest ©. Thompson
Wilbur C. Hawk
Tri-State Fair Association
Marvin Jones
Arthur C. Johnson
Matthew “Bones” Hooks
Plains
Bones
Texas Kidnap Case Opens in Corsicana Court
Testimony began in Corsicana district court in the Currie Caldwell case charged with assault while masked in the December kidnapping of Robert Cerf. Isaac N Cerf described a ransom note, a weighted letter, and steps leading to the ransom delivery and return of $15,000.
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Corsicana
Tex
Currie Caldwell
Robert Cerf
Isaac N. Cerf
Cerf
N. Suttle Roberts
Roberts
Will
Knight
Bank
Orange County tax remission bill signed and more acts approved
Governor Ros A Sterling signed the Orange County tax remission law allowing nine tenths of state property taxes to be remitted for 25 years to aid drainage projects. The Small Wagstaff land titles bill and Confederate pensions were also enacted, with 31 bills signed including a Huntsville hospital for the criminal insane and deer hunting restrictions.
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Austin
Sterling
Orange County
Orang County
Wagstaff
State Land Office
Huntsville
American Flier Aims Pacific Crossing From Japan
Captain Thomas Ash Jr. arrived at Sabishiro Beach Japan at 3 44 P M local time on the Pacific to begin a nonstop flight across the Pacific Ocean He plans a 6000 mile leg to Seattle carrying 1260 gallons of fuel in the monoplane Pacific rebuilt after a prior failed attempt due to radiator trouble Ash seeks a $25000 prize offered by Ashahi newspapers of Tokyo and Osaka.
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Sabishiro Beach
Hondo Island
Japan
U.P
Thomas Ash, Jr
Tokio
Pacific
Pacific Ocean
Ash
City of Tacoma II
Harold Bromley
Harold Gatty
Army Air Corps
France
Hollywood
Ashahi
Osaka
Seattle
Wash
Weather Forecast for Amarillo and Vicinity
Partly cloudy tonight and Saturday. West Texas cloudy with occasional thundershowers in the southeast tonight and Saturday. New Mexico generally fair in the southwest with showers in the north and east portions tonight and Saturday. Cooler tonight in extreme southeast portion. Temperatures today 70 and 67.
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Amarillo
Vicinet
West Texas
New Mexico
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John Maynard Shr. Co
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Borger
Hereford
Tascosa
Taylor
Ade Vega A
Ig Stores
Arillo, LL Stores
Fillmore
San_ Jacinto
Texas Club
U.S. Farm Board
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LE Havre
White Horse
Paris
Miss Guinan
Champ Elysee
Ideal Mattress Co
Dial
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Hurst Jewelry Co
Berry
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