Word: colorado
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Joseph Delano Hitch of Denver, Colorado...
Charles W. Waterman, R. Colorado...
...Prohibition referendums were held in eight states. Illinois, Montana, Nevada, New York, Wisconsin voted for modification of the liquor laws. In New York particularly the Wet majority was overwhelming-more than three to one. The Drys were successful in California, Colorado, Missouri. The result in Missouri is meaningless because the Wets had repudiated their referendum proposal before election...
...poke its prow into the sun-kissed Pacific. Completed in 1924, at a cost of nearly $23,000,000, it is the last battleship which the U. S. can build until 1934, according to the Naval Limitations Pact agreed upon at the Washington Conference in 1923. The West Virginia, Colorado (the most expensive: $25,000,000) and Maryland are the three largest ships in the Navy (each 32,600 tons). Behind these in single file would come the 15 other battleships, stretching back six miles to the Pedro Miguel locks where the Florida (oldest and fastest of them all) would...
...Colorado. William E. Sweet, Democrat, v. Charles W. Waterman, Republican. Onetime (1923-24) Governor Sweet is a radical with a millionaire background, and hence is viewed with alarm by stolid Coloradoans. Mr. Waterman's chief distinction is that he conquered Senator Rice W. Means (backed by the Klan and well-dressed Senator Phipps) in the primaries. Despite the split in the Republican ranks, Colorado is expected to return another G. O. P. Senator...