Word: colorados
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plump as Mr. Akerson's. His outlook on government is serious, heavy. Married, father of two sons, he gets fun out of tending a small but elaborate flower garden behind his Chevy Chase home. When President Hoover returns from his Caribbean cruise Mr. Joslin will retire from the Colorado Building's so-called "Brain Trust"* to begin his White House duties...
...Earl of Ypres; and Victor Henry Peter Brougham, 21, 4th Baron of Brougham & Vaux; in London. In 1926 Miss French was engaged to Henry Bradley Martin, Manhattan socialite. In 1929 she rushed to the U. S. to minister to him after he was injured in an automobile accident in Colorado. The engagement was subsequently broken...
...second part of the summer will be spent in a rapid reconnaissance, covering 1,500 miles in New Mexico, Colorado, and the north of Texas. The traveling will be done by truck, and the party will usually camp out. The first place that will be visited is the northern basin of the Rio Grande, where ancient lakes will be studied. From there the party will go to the salt lakes in the enclosed basin of the Estancia, and across the plains of Eastern New Mexico, ending at the Carlsbad Caverns...
After his Yale graduation ('05) Mr. Rogers reported for the New York Sun for a year, returned to his native Denver for a law degree, married Cora May, daughter of James H. Peabody, famed Colorado Governor during the Cripple Creek gold rush. Enlisting for the War, he became a first lieutenant of artillery. After practicing his profession with John F. Shafroth, onetime Colorado Governor and Senator, and William V. Hodges, one-time G. O. P. treasurer, Mr. Rogers took the deanship of the University of Colorado's Law School. Public-spirited, he helped Colorado taxpayers fight their Moffat Tunnel case...
...Colorado's capitol building at Denver makes an ideal home for visiting pigeons. The crannies are comfortable and from time to time Colorado's philanthropic legislators provide a penny's worth of peanuts, prime pigeon fare. But last week the birds returned evil for good. Through a window they entered the legislative chamber, scratched, cooed, flew about the high ceiling making themselves a nuisance. Debate on a $600,000 appropriation bill was dropped, the Speaker called the janitor. The janitor called his assistant. His assistant called Electrician Fred Karns. Finally, over the protest of several legislators...