Word: cervi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...commercial journals that are published in most U.S. cities, Denver's business weekly bears as much resemblance as sour-mash bourbon to Sanka. Known as Cervi's Rocky Mountain Journal, after Editor and Publisher Eugene Sisto Cervi, the thriving $12-a-year Denver paper is a sassy, fact-crammed compendium of personals, local business transactions (including almost every new car sale in town) and well-honed gibes at such unlikely targets as the Chamber of Commerce, complacent businessmen, Scripps-Howard's Rocky Mountain News and the powerful Denver Post. Gene Cervi, 50, onetime Colorado State Democratic Chairman...
Last week, on a rare note of bewilderment, Eugene Cervi confessed on Page One that the Rocky Mountain Journal's antitax campaign had received a mountainous boost; to his office had come a letter from an anonymous "admirer" urging continued efforts to "stop big Nick in his tax campaign." Enclosed: a $1,000 bill, with the suggestion: "If you can't go along with my idea, then turn the money over to your favorite charity...
...Cervi was puzzled," wrote Cervi. "Was the mysterious sender offering $1,000 as a perverse bribe, a gift of gratitude, prelude to a trap to be sprung later or giving vent to honest outrage?" In a P.S. to the sender, Editor Cervi suggested: "If this is a trick, why don't you try us out on a $100,000 note...
...week's end Editor Cervi happily handed the bill to a three-man committee, which will turn it over to a charity if its earlier owner does not claim it first. To the many Denverites who thought the newsman should keep his windfall, Cervi shook his head and explained: "I'm not in a position to feel that anyone loves me that much...
...away from its traditional principles." Says Oregon's Governor Robert Holmes: "The Democratic Party goes forward when it remembers it is a liberal party, and I could wish Senator Johnson would remember that our party dares be the liberal voice of America." Says Colorado's influential Eugene Cervi, editor and publisher of Germ's Rocky Mountain Journal and onetime Democratic state chairman: "As far as Lyndon Johnson is concerned, he is outmoded, out of date, out of step, out of philosophy, and has almost taken himself out of the Democratic Party...