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...sufficient, that their connection with underground oil supplies was not proved. Potent oil companies?Pure Oil, Union of California, Prairie, Continental, Midwest?massed their legal forces against this decision. Three years later with the aid of Colorado's Senators they induced Secretary of the Interior Hubert Work, a Coloradoan, to reverse the Department's position. By Dr. Work's decree, surface evidence of oil in shale lands now constitutes "discovery" and validates land patents granted prior...
...Chaney's mother was Emma Kennedy, the daughter of a distinguished Coloradoan. She married a good-natured Irish barber who, like herself, was deaf & dumb. Lon, the second of four normal children, left school at the age of nine to take care of her. He could make his mother understand him by contorting his face into significant expressions. At 13 he went to work as a guide to tourists on Pike's Peak. Later he was carpet-layer, stage hand, vaudevillist. He married his singing and dancing partner; their son is a lawyer in Hollywood...
...House, Representative John Charles Linthicum of Maryland, leader of the "wet bloc," was re-elected and so were most of his most vigorous bloc-mates-New York's Sirovich, La Guardia, Black; Illinois' Sabath, Britten; Missouri's Dyer. But Representative S. Harrison White, wet Coloradoan, is out and Maryland's John Philip Hill, Leader Linthicum's predecessor, failed to get back into Congress. All this in the face of the best efforts of the Association against the Prohibition Amendment...