Word: colorado
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...brother's cattle ranch on the bank of a river in Oklahoma territory at the age of ten. He made the acquaintance of cow-boys. Indians, and bandits, and at the age of nineteen served as a cow-boy himself on the range in New Mexico and Colorado. He tells about his picturesque life in the most human and likeable fashion, and his West is even more exciting than that of flashy novels and photoplays because it has the convincing spirit of reality and historical correctness. Mr. Collins' plea for authentic portrayal of conditions and life in those lusty days...
...nine States that Nominee Smith courted on his first campaign tour-listed in the order of their likelihood for him: Montana, Wisconsin, South Dakota, Minnesota, North Dakota, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Colorado-have 63 electoral votes. Added to the nucleus of the Solid South and New York, upon which the Smith candidacy is predicated-the total would be 222 if his courtship has been 100% effective. Before the most optimistic of the Smith managers lay the problem of how to acquire 44 more electoral votes from the following possibilities...
...French mother and Polish father was christened Samuel (Kosman) in honor of famed mythical "Uncle Sam." Others on the Ile de France were Elsie Ferguson, Raymond Orteig, donor of the $25,000 Paris-New York flight prize which Hero Lindbergh captured, Senator Lawrence C. Phipps of Colorado, who had trouble with the customs officials...
Savants and Statesmen sometimes learn from Swine. As a result of such learning the Federal Council of the German States issued an order, last week, banning from importation into Germany all U. S. barley, except that grown in the states of Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas...
...German savants, patient, waited several days until the hogs grew so ravenous that they ate the U. S. barley. That night German swine who had partaken of barley from states other than Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas suffered the pangs of colic...