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Following a visit to the President (see p. 11), San Antonio's Mayor Maury Maverick announced that he favored a third term for Roosevelt "1,000%." Mayor Maverick declared that Fellow Texan Garner's "future is behind him," said: "In a time of emergency like this we cannot afford to have a man as President as old as Mr. Garner is. He is a fine Christian, water-drinking gentleman. . . . No man has ever been elected in his seventies except Harrison* and I think he caught a cold and died in office...
California has this year the biggest rush of tourists in its history, has taken from them at least $100,000,000 of new business. For this a quiet, gangling Texan named Clyde Milner Vandeburg (32), director of Fair promotion, and his assistant, beaming Crompton Bangs Jr. (29), former G-Man are largely responsible. Two years ago Promoter Vandeburg talked Fair managers into selling their Big Show rs a peg on which to hang a national campaign of travel to eleven far-western States instead of merely plugging San Francisco. To tie the westward movement into a national travel merry...
...outside FCC to pick a chairman. Like Frank McNinch, 41-year-old James Lawrence Fly made his name with the New Deal program. TVA's general counsel since 1937, able Jim Fly won TVA's two major tilts in the Supreme Court. A tall, quiet, hard-working Texan who graduated from Annapolis and spent three years in the Navy before loping through Harvard Law School in two years, Lawyer Fly is a New Dealer on power questions but no zealot, won the respect of many private utilitarians by his moderation and tact in TVA disputes. By naming...
Nelson, a 27-year-old Texan, was trying to add the P.G.A. (match play) championship to the National Open (medal play) championship he won last month and thus become the only professional golfer besides Gene Sarazen to win the two major U. S. titles in one year. Picard, 31-year-old New Englander, had never won a major U. S. tournament although he has long been considered one of the game's best shotmakers...
...chief entertainer when Franklin Roosevelt dropped by, been sponsor to many a local sporting event. In his largest role, Gene Howe is known to his Amarillo readers as Old Tack, the generous, convivial, duck-hunting, dog-finding, golf-playing conductor of a column of chatter called "The Tactless Texan." Last week, beneath the smudgy picture of cross-eyed Ben Turpin which daily tops the column, Old Tack, 53, fresh from a visit to Washington, made an announcement which might lead him once again to the nation's front pages. Wrote...