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...front door they waited. Mayor Stewart and the city fathers expected them at the side entrance for a private reception in the Mayor's office. Minutes passed before word of the mixup reached Mayor Stewart who rushed down to find the representative of the Crown red as a beet under his plumed hat, and already seated on the reviewing stand waiting for the parade to begin. Stammering apologies Mayor Stewart asked his Lordship if he would care to come back for the reception...
...Federal jury reported "hopeless" disagreement after 28 hours. But there are other newsworthy members of the Boettcher clan and to Denver and Colorado the name also means sugar. Charles Boettcher, octogenarian grandfather of Charles 2nd and head of the family, is a founder of Great Western Sugar, biggest beet sugar company in the U. S. Born in 1852 in Thuringia, heart of the German beet sugar country, he peddled hardware in the boom mining towns of Colorado. When he visited Germany again in 1898 he brought back a bag of beet seed, helped set up Colorado's first beet...
Sugar men have long known that Claude K. Boettcher has been acquiring stock in Great Western's most important rival, American Beet Sugar Co., second biggest unit in the industry. In 1929 American Beet had acquired control of Mormon-managed Amalgamated Sugar Co. Last week American announced that Claude K. Boettcher had been made board chairman of Amalgamated Sugar. Financial writers immediately guessed that Great Western was reaching out for control of American Beet, whose stock capitalization is only 406,000 shares. This Claude Boettcher denied, claiming that his holdings in American Beet were purely on his personal account...
Before leaving for Manhattan last week Claude Boettcher told a newshawk that he expected to be elected chairman of American Beet this week. Outstanding among Denver's first financial families, the Boettchers are reported to be one of the three biggest owners of Great Western stock. Last week Denver brokers were predicting that the Boettcher clan would like nothing better than to merge all Midwest sugar companies under their control...
When Senator Wagner read a statement that declared that children of twelve worked 16 hours a day in the beet fields, Senator Borah of Idaho, champion of all righteous causes, leaped to his feet, demanding "Where is it? It is a slander...