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...high point of the year. In 1904, as a raw youth from Texas' back prairie, he went to St. Louis to see the World's Fair, and lost all his money matching pennies with a "very agreeable fellow who said he was a Texan, too. from Amarillo." Ever since, Bob has had a hopeless affair with fairs and carnivals, and today he is the best barker Dallas ever had, and one of the best in the awesome tent show of Texas...
Instead of a posse. Little organized a "postcard shower" from Press readers to cheer up the jailed Texan, helped newspapers in Conley's home town of Amarillo raise a $5,500 fund for his legal defense. Last week, after 37 months in jail, Texan Conley was back home with eight-year-old daughter Lynette, aided in part by the decision of a Massachusetts judge to let Texas settle the custody question...
...morning after a hurried breakfast with the Cabinet, the President flew off to Amarillo, Texas for a fast personal inspection of the parched plains and a conference with the governors of six drought-ridden states: Texas' Allan Shivers, Colorado's Dan Thornton, New Mexico's Edwin Mechem, Oklahoma's Johnston Murray, Kansas' Edward Arn, Arkansas' Francis Cherry...
Before he hurried back to Washington, the President promised an audience of 2,800 Texans in the Amarillo Public Auditorium that he would act fast. "I was born and raised . . . almost at the end of the Chisholm Trail," he said. "It is not strange that I have hurried here . . . We are not going to wait until the last cow has starved to death until something is done. Something is going to be done now." The President assured his hearers that he would act promptly on emergency recommendations of Agriculture Secretary Benson and the governors. As he climbed back into...
...went to Brockton, got in a scuffle with Mother-in-Law LaCroix, took baby Lynette back to Amarillo, where she is still cared for by Bob's mother. Bob went to Massachusetts, where Probate Judge Harry Stone, who had given custody of the child to Lucille in a divorce action, sentenced Bob to nine months for contempt because he refused to bring Lynette back from Texas. Since then, Judge Stone has resentenced him four times, as each term expired...