Word: colorado
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chauncey Tinker got his first glimpse of Johnson's Age as a Yale undergraduate, class of '99. Before that, he had lived the peripatetic life of a minister's son (Maine to Colorado), and his great ambition was to be a conductor on the Boston & Maine railway. After Yale, he taught one year at Bryn Mawr and fell in love with a student-"a very beautiful girl." She married someone else, and Tinker settled into bachelordom...
Until last week nobody minded much but 44-year-old James Boyd, a mining engineer, father of four small sons, and former dean of Colorado School of Mines. Because Lewis' miners in Colorado, as elsewhere, are opposed to Boyd, Colorado's Republican Eugene Millikin blocked his confirmation to the $10,000-a-year Government job. So for the past 14 months Boyd has not drawn a nickel in pay. He got by, he said, by "adjusting my family's resources" and growing vegetables...
General Rolón had lasted barely 30 days. His big mistake, after scheduling elections for April, was to invite Paraguay's thousands of political exiles to come home and vote. That was strictly contrary to the wishes of the dominant Colorado party, which ran last year's elections on a one-party basis. Colorado chieftains, who wanted to make Dentist Molas López President in April, began to suspect that Rolón was getting ready to stand as a candidate himself...
This week the new President announced formation of an all-Colorado cabinet, and promised that the elections would be held. In plain words, Molas López would win unopposed-if he lasted that long...
...Francisco run, with six new streamliners costing about $15 million. The Q cannot compete, timewise, with the Union Pacific, which has a much shorter route. So Budd shrewdly decided, by use of the Vista Dome, to "sell the breath-taking scenery" of the road's route through the Colorado Rockies and California's Feather River Canyon...