Word: colorados
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three principal visitors at the White House last week were King Prajadhipok and Queen Rambai Barni of Siam and Bryan Untiedt, 13-year-old hero of last month's Colorado blizzard (TIME, April 6, 13). The ailing little King, first absolute monarch ever to cross the Executive Mansion's threshold, called on President Hoover at 10:15 one morning, hurried back to his quarters to receive the President at n, then spent the afternoon in a dentist's office. After a state dinner at the White House that evening, during which Master Untiedt was permitted to peep...
...credited in last week's stories with manufacturing news tid-bits to put President Hoover in a warm light, inducing him to do more new and friendly things for their publicity value. To Secretary Joslin were ascribed the White House invitation to Bryan Untiedt, 13-year-old Colorado blizzard hero; the opening of the rear grounds of the White House to tourists at noon each day with the President and Mrs. Hoover waving greetings from a balcony. To Secretary Joslin were traced Press items showing how much more President Hoover used the telephone than his predecessors, and comparing...
Colyumist Phillips' offering that day was a "letter" from President Hoover, inviting Bryan Untiedt, 13-year-old hero of the school-bus catastrophe in Colorado (TIME. April 6, 13), to visit the White house. Excerpt...
...There is a boy worth knowing," declared President Hoover as he read of how 13-year-old Bryan Untiedt had saved all but five of 21 children from death-by-freezing when their school bus was marooned 36 hours in a Colorado blizzard (TIME, April 6). What impressed the President most was the way Bryan had stripped off his own clothes to wrap around his shivering schoolmates; how he had kept the youngsters from falling into a frozen sleep. Last week Bryan lay in a hospital bed at Lamar, Colo, painfully recovering from frozen hands and feet (they will...
That creative artists and scholars of all kinds may have a year abroad, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (capital fund $4,500,000, established by onetime Colorado Senator and Mining Tycoon Simon Guggenheim and his wife Olga Hirsh Guggenheim in memory of their son who died in 1922), has in the past six years awarded 295 Fellowships. Last week, with no strings attached, $175,000 was handed out to 77 male and female Fellows. Average grant: $2,500. To China, Europe and Latin America they will go, some of them perhaps to try to emulate Poet Stephen Vincent Benet...