Word: colorado
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will take another unexpected turn, no two political experts quite agree. Lowden's candidacy has been approved by important Republican organizations in Illinois, Iowa, and Minnesota. In addition to this, the managers of the various Lowden-for-President clubs claim that their candidate will have the delegates of Missouri, Colorado, Indiana, Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota, Montana, and Wisconsin. This would give him a bloc of about three hundred delegates in the convention. The estimate is optimistic but not impossible. For, as Mark Sullivan has pointed out, the present disposition of Lowden's rivals is not to oppose...
...pallid from malaria, recently reached the top by following a ledge* that ran thinly up Mt. Roraima from the Brazilian side. Atop Mt. Roraima they found themselves on a remarkably flat tableland, 12 miles square, something like the flat land of Arizona through which the Grand Canyon of the Colorado River cuts...
...Colorado's I. W. W. coal strike, current since October, ended last week. Wobbly Tom Connors, strike chief, announced that a statewide ballot (the second one cast within a month) was 88% in favor of returning to work. Another Wobbly leader gave the reason: "The slack season is upon us. It is foolish to strike when the bosses can meet the demand for coal by keeping a few scabs at work...
Both sides claimed victory, though the specific points at issue during the strike still awaited judgment by the Industrial Commission. The I. W. W. pointed to the perfection of an organization through which Colorado miners can exact higher wages when the slack season ends. Also, a Federal court decision in the strike's closing days restored to the strikers the right of habeas corpus, unconstitutionally denied them when Governor William H. Adams declared parts of Colorado to be in a "state of insurrection" (TIME...
...Colorado operators maintained that the strikers' morale had been undermined by loss of pay and the introduction of many new workers unsympathetic towards the I. W. W. But the largest operator, President J. F. Welborn of the Colorado Fuel & Iron Co., frankly admitted the injury done his own interests when he estimated that the four-month disturbance had cost Labor $3,000,000, railroads $4,000,000, affiliated industries $1,000,000 and Colorado's operators $10,000,000, not to mention markets which it would take years to recapture...