Billy Rose Presents . . . Casa Mañana
Jones, Jan L![Billy Rose Presents . . . Casa Mañana](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/905/9051627/CHSBZCOP039051627.jpg)
In 1936 as Texas prepared to celebrate its centennial -- 100 years after the Battle of San Jacinto -- Dallas was chosen as the site of the official exhibition. Plans were under way for a modest Frontier Days Celebration in Fort Worth -- until Star-Telegram publisher and civic booster Amon G. Carter stepped in. Carter considered the naming of Dallas as the official site a gross miscarriage of justice and was determined to get even by mounting a...