Word: armstrong
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Year ago Colorado stroked its chin thoughtfully but nodded assent when Fred G. Bonfils, astute publisher of the incredibly blatant Denver Post, proposed that State auto license No. 1 be bestowed annually on "Denver's most useful citizen." He wangled the scheme through Secretary of State Charles M. Armstrong, got license No. i away from a Mrs. E. E. Sommers whose husband had held it many years, and grandiloquently bestowed it on Miss Emily Griffith, sweet-faced, grey-haired founder of Denver's Opportunity School. "Henceforth," blared the Post, "it will be a sign that...
...what every good jazz musician knows but few would be able to express: that the true heroes of jazz are not the well-advertised Whitemans, Lombardos and Vallees, but an inner circle of such amazing virtuosi as Saxophonists Jimmy Dorsey, Coleman Hawkins, Frank Trum-bauer, Adrian Rollini; Trumpeters Louis Armstrong, Red Nichols, the late Bix Beiderbecke; Trombonists Miff Mole, Jack Teagarden, Tommy Dorsey. M. Coffin distinguishes between le jazz straight et hot, denotes les classiques du hot, discusses their sources and development, arrives at a conclusion which has long seemed obvious to devotees: that the best jazz, which enjoys little...
...stubborn near its own goal line that two Notre Dame teams were lucky to grind out two touchdowns at Cleveland, 12-to-0. Pitt found Carnegie Tech a touchdown harder than Notre Dame, a touchdown easier than Nebraska, 6-to-0 in a sooty Pittsburgh snowstorm. Coach Ike Armstrong's Utah team, which has not lost a Rocky Mountain Conference game since the one the Colorado Aggies won, 12 to 0, in 1927, played the Colorado Aggies again last week, clinched its fifth Conference Championship in a row, 16 to 0. In three New York mud-puddles. Fordham nosed...
Died. William Wright Armstrong, 67, Salt Lake City Banker, board chairman of National Copper Bank; in Salt Lake City...
...vast United States of Brazil (larger than the 48 United States) the major civil war in which nearly 100,000 Brazilians are engaged (TIME. Aug. 8, 15) dragged on and on. At Pittsburgh, Pa. five Cadillac eights were being armor plated by Armstrong Motor Body Co. "for a South American president" who is having the Cadillacs equipped to spray tear gas and machine gun bullets...