Word: colorado
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...helped but hindered the return of Prosperity, drummed the Republican Nominee; real Prosperity could not be said to exist while 11,000,000 citizens remained unemployed; Republican rule would bring greater Prosperity; New Deal spending threatened the foundations of future Prosperity. Meantime, as the Democratic Nominee coursed eastward from Colorado, drawing great crowds everywhere and everywhere demonstrating his mastery of them (see p. 12), he hammered again & again at a single thesis: the New Deal has restored Prosperity, will preserve and enlarge...
...there were any doubt about all this, the British Embassy might have set right the Episcopal Bishop of Colorado, the Right Reverend Irving Peake Johnson, D. C., who warmly declared: "The Archbishop of Canterbury and the Archbishop of York stand for the sanctity of the home against the power of the King. They were placed in a position in which they had to choose between their conscience and expediency. It is to their credit that they had the courage to witness to our Lord's command...
...Christian Unity. Washington's Bishop James Edward Freeman opened the Pan-American Congress with this observation: "State craft has utterly failed to abolish war, and Christianity must come to the rescue or civilization and the church will perish from the earth!'' Bishop Irving Peake Johnson of Colorado disagreed. Said he: "It is impossible for the church to alter political systems. . . . The church exists to produce righteous people and that is a Herculean task." Gloomily observed Chicago's Bishop George Craig Stewart, host to the Congress: "A moral collapse is engulfing mankind . . . unification of Christian forces alone...
...scientist requires little besides railroad fare and a net. One or two scientists collected material from the yachts of wealthy kudos-loving sportsmen. Dr. Frank H. H. Roberts Jr. revisited the Folsom deposits, oldest known site of human culture in the U. S. (about 20,000 years old). In Colorado he found one of the grooved Folsom arrow points actually imbedded in the vertebra of an extinct bison. Miss Frances Densmore continued recording Indian music, and Dr. J. R. Swanton pursued the route of Hernando de Soto through Georgia and South Carolina...
...Down upon Colorado last week swept the worst September blizzard in years, smothering Denver with 17 inches of snow, disrupting traffic throughout the State. Up from El Paso, Tex. about the same time climbed a single-motored Lockheed Vega belonging to Varney Air Transport, Inc., passenger-mail line between El Paso and Pueblo, Colo. Meeting bad weather, Pilot C. H. Chidlaw landed at Trinidad, Colo, for the night. Next morning he and his two passengers headed north again. Twenty minutes later, three ranchers near lonely Rattlesnake Buttes saw the plane circling in distress through the heavy blizzard. Apparently intending...