Word: colorado
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Convicted by an Indianapolis Federal Grand Jury of conspiracy to defraud through the mails, Clarence Joseph Morley, onetime (1925-27) Governor of Colorado, was sentenced to five years in Leavenworth Penitentiary...
...most of the year Central City is a scraggly little Colorado mining town (pop. 572) asleep in the memory of an ancient glamor. But for two or three weeks in the summer it is crowded with well-dressed visitors, most of them having a fine time and many of them tipsy. Last week the town was crowded and the focus of festivity was the Central City Opera House...
...Herald Tribune's fashionable chitchat columnist, Lucius Beebe; Ward Morehouse of the New York Sun; Dr. Kingsley Roberts, Manhattan Surgeon; Mrs. Paul T. Mayo of Denver, her sister Mrs. Stanley Harris of Washington, Mrs, William McKinnon of Paris, Eloise Staats of Greenwich, Conn., who raises horses on her Colorado ranch, and a host of other socialites. There was so much alcoholic garrulity in the packed house that the first two acts were hardly audible, but the audience calmed down during the third act and erupted in thunderous acclaim at the final curtain. The play will run at Central City...
...whole show at Central City. There are saloons and gambling halls with oldtime atmosphere and Sheila Barrett doing impersonations in a nightclub. On the schedule this year are trips through the gold mines, a hose-cart race by the volunteer fire department, a rock-drilling contest for Colorado miners...
...Colorado Springs, Colo., when Frank M. Gilbert gives his horse a drink, spectators gather. Animalover Gilbert's procedure is to take his steed to the nearest drug store, give him a soda through a straw...