Word: colorado
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rafters they applauded social-minded Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Josephine Roche, great friend of Labor, first Colorado mine owner to bargain with U. M. W., who declared: "To stigmatize the battle to bring security to our people ... is nothing less than a travesty on justice. . . . 'O Liberty! what crimes are committed in thy name...
Cases like these, inconsequential in themselves, served last week to bring to public attention the latest and most spectacular dodge of U. S. cinemansion proprietors to draw crowds to their theatres. "Bank Night," invented by a Colorado theatre manager in 1931, is now prevalent in 4,000 of the 15,000 U. S. cinemansions. Most important news of Bank Night last week came from Des Moines where the Iowa Supreme Court ruled that Bank Night was not illegal. Three hundred theatres, which had discontinued Bank Night five months ago pending the decision, promptly prepared to resume...
...Pilot Hughes immediately climbed. There he leveled off, tried to get a radio bearing, discovered his antennae had torn away in the takeoff. Nonetheless, he dashed on at 225 m.p.h., taking oxygen every five minutes. After an hour, as he whizzed over the Colorado River into Arizona, thick weather shut in around him, forced him to fly blind. Climbing another 3,000 ft., he found smoother air, came out into the clear over Santa Fe as his third hour ended. Hour later, he met night rolling in over Kansas...
...skiing was introduced into Switzerland a few years before the turn of the Century by English sportsmen who had picked it up in Norway, correctly considered the Alps ideal skiing terrain. In the U. S., the first skier on authentic record was the Rev. John L. Dyer, a Colorado Methodist preacher, who used skis to carry mail to his parishioners in the early 1850's. Norwegians in the Midwest organized the first U. S. ski-jumping tournament...
...blatancy the palm went to the Denver Post, which concentrated in color on Colorado's contributions to the Union. Something of a record for frankness was set by the Boston Transcript, whose financial editor Laurance P. Morse observed in connection with business forecasts: "This annual folly has gradually come to have the sanction of years and with it a sort of gentlemen's agreement . . . that no one shall check up on what the other one said last year...