Word: colorado
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Roche Defeat. "This looks like a good healthy battle," James Aloysius Farley had told the man and woman who wanted to be Colorado's Democratic Governor...
...criminologist, left Vassar in 1908, took her M. A. at Columbia along with Frances Perkins. Like Miss Perkins, she went in for social service work. After her father died in 1927, Miss Roche was left with a large share of Rocky Mountain Fuel Co., second biggest coal mine in Colorado. She bought complete control, was the first operator in the State to unionize. When non-union owners tried to break her by underselling, Colorado unionists put on a voluntary promotion campaign, took a temporary wage cut. Miss Roche's company now sells Denver most of its lignite...
Back of Governor Edwin Carl Johnson, country politician and son of a Swedish immigrant, was the Adams family organization. An Adams has held elective office in Colorado ever since Statehood (1876). Present political chief of the clan is Junior Senator Alva Blanchard Adams. A conservative small town banker, Senator Adams split with Senator Costigan over the New Deal, would like to oust onetime Republican Costigan from the Democratic Party...
...primary day approached, Governor Johnson's adherents cried that Senator Costigan was having people dropped from relief rolls for failing to solicit votes for Candidate Roche. Senator Costigan denounced the Johnsonite Denver Post for its "nauseating campaign of unwarranted invective and deception." But Colorado Democrats gave Governor Johnson a 7-to-6 majority over the first female aspirant for his office. Nate C. Warren of Fort Collins was the Republican chosen to oppose...
...once in four years, was President, his aids worried much because he could not present himself in the role of a human being. They had to think up many ways of dramatizing the milk of human kindness that flowed in his heart. At great pains they brought Bryan Untiedt, Colorado boy who the Press headlined as having saved 16 children marooned in a snowbound school bus, to Washington to play a mouth organ for the Hoovers. No such dramatization is required by Franklin Roosevelt, but the same machinery still turns. Twelve-year- old Thomas Fitzgerald, of Ocean City...