Word: colorado
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rhode Island: Horace G. Killam, Jr. Providence, Rhode Island. Rochester, New York: Richard M. Bloch, Rochester and Howard A. Joos, Rochester. Rocky Mountain, Colorado: David R. Howard, Boulder, Colorado. St. Louis: Joseph M. Leahey, St. Louis. Washington, District of Columbia: Henry H. Dearing, Jr., Shaker Heights, Ohio. Western Pennsylvania: Edmund J. Steytler, Pittsburgh, and Robert G. Tyson, Pittsburgh. Harvard Graduates living in Milton: John L. Cady, Milton...
...main line from Cheyenne to Denver, where the cow-country meets the mountains, lies the brisk Colorado city of Greeley. Into Greeley with a flivver-pulled trailer in the fall of 1930 steamed one Elzy Alumbaugh ("Buzz") Hoover, 28, husky, square-cut, leather-lunged, with a diploma from Fred Reppart's School of Auctioneering, a wife, two children and $10. He found a place to park in Greeley's junky fringe, pushed his gallon hat back off his forehead, and got down to business...
...auction days, when the radio-beckoned crowds turn out in droves, Buzz wears a slick cowboy outfit and so do Claude and Esther. His roustabouts wear natty, filling-station-style uniforms with cowboy hats, clown around on bucking steers between sales. Buzz himself is no mail-order Westerner. Colorado-born, he worked for a spell as a brakeman on Spencer Penrose's Pike's Peak cog road. As a prelude to his success story, he tells the curious: "I'm no relation to the ex-President, the G-Man or the vacuum cleaner...
...Suggesting that his constituents forget Armistice Day this year, Colorado's Governor Ralph L. Carr said last week: "Everything this observance stands for is gone...
...Yale's Law School grabbed the most famed Rhodes Scholar, Colorado's All-America halfback Byron ("Whizzer") White...