Word: colorado
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Morgan, 55, president of Ohio's Antioch ("Work& Study") College. An engineer of much experience, Chairman Morgan has been fascinated by water and its uses since as a youngster he roved the Minnesota prairie. He wrote the Minnesota and Arkansas drainage codes, helped with those of Mississippi, Ohio, Colorado and New Mexico. He tamed the wild Miami River after it had flooded Dayton in 1913. Since 1920 he has built Antioch College up from an obscure experiment to a vigorous college with 650 enrolled and a big waiting list...
...World's Fair 40 years ago. ¶ Last week President Roosevelt made the following appointments: Dave Hennen Morris, New York socialite lawyer, to be Ambassador to Belgium-; Sam Gilbert Bratton, Senator from New Mexico, to be a U. S. Circuit Judge after adjournment of Congress; Oscar L. Chapman, Colorado lawyer, to be Assistant Secretary of the Interior; Alexander Wilbourne Weddell of Virginia, former career diplomat, to be Ambassador to Argentina. ¶ Few reports have excited Washington so much as last week's to the effect that President Roosevelt might attend the London Economic Conference next month. The White...
...legal authority to force a citizen to give up his lawfully acquired property. Senator Borah had openly declared: "If I had $5,000 in gold I would defy the Government to come and get it." One person who took Senator Borah's advice last week was Colorado's Charles S. Thomas, 83, onetime (1899-1901) Governor, onetime (1913-21) Senator. To the U. S. District Attorney at Denver, this fiery old Democrat wrote: "I am the owner and possessor of $120 in gold which I have acquired in order to qualify myself for the penitentiary. . . . Being entitled...
...annual Church Congress in Evanston. Ill.-an unofficial, argumentative gathering which lays down no laws but permits high, low and broad churchmen to air their views. Bishop Scarlett defended his intercommunion service, pointing out that Jesus Christ was no sectarian. Leader of the opposing side was another Episcopal Johnson-Colorado's popular, high-church Bishop Irving Peake Johnson, called ''The Tame Lion." Bishop Johnson growled about jellyfish and other spineless creatures who make compromises, start conflicts. Let the Church keep the bars up and avoid trouble. Intercommunion would ''make the Episcopal household of faith...
...make silver producers rich by raising silver prices. No different from any other raid on the Treasury, this attack is led by Congressmen from Nevada, Colorado. Arizona and Utah...