Word: colorado
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ralph Carr, 50, of Colorado, round-faced, popular lawyer, U.S. District Attorney under Herbert Hoover. He had to be drafted...
...concrete measure of Republicans' success was that they swept New England solidly. Very nearly capturing the New York Governorship, they swept New Jersey. Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Kansas, South Dakota, Colorado, Idaho, Oregon. They nearly won in Indiana, won all high State offices but the Governorship in Nebraska, gained the Governorship and barely missed another Senator in Iowa. All those victories were against Democrats. In Minnesota and Wisconsin, ruled by Farmer-Labor and Progressives who were more or less allies of the New Deal, they won two more Governorships, one Senatorship...
...annuity plan" which would have paid up to $100 a month, but instructed its Legislature to memorialize Congress on behalf of the Townsend Plan. Nebraskans refused to license slot machines to provide more pension revenue. Elsewhere the pension cause was successful. North Dakota approved pensions of $40 a month. Colorado rejected an amendment repealing its present $45-a-month pensions which its opponents declared were bankrupting the State. Missourians thought it was all right to lower the age minimum for pensioners from...
...Business as a whole found last week's election thoroughly satisfactory. But for one major U. S. business it was profoundly disappointing -in Colorado the chain stores lost their second major battle with the tax ogre. First such battle was over the proposed California chain-store tax in 1936, which the chains defeated by a mighty publicity and advertising campaign. Colorado has had a chain-store tax since 1934 and last week it came up for referendum. Despite another mighty publicity and advertising barrage, Colorado voted No to repeal...
Horace G. Lunt 2d '41, of Denver, Colorado; Samuel G. McClellan '41, of Evanston, Illinois; John F. McClure '39, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; Joseph R. McLoughlin '41, of Fort Washington, Pennsylvania; Dale H. Maple '41, San Diego, California; Henry W. Maxwell, Jr. '41, of Hinsdale, Illinois; Clare L. Milton, Jr. '39, of St. Joseph, Michigan; David B. Mitchell '40, of Campbellsville, Kentucky; Elbert M. Moffat, Jr. '41, of Bombay, India...