Word: colorados
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Franklin lobby method was to trade Senate votes. He would promise a Senator interested in an increased sugar duty a vote for sugar in return for his vote for an oil duty. Thus he lined up the Colorado and Louisiana "sugar" Senators for an oil duty on the promise that Oklahoma's "oil" Senators would later vote for sugar...
...Guggenheim entrance into mining was no haphazard stroke of luck. An associate of Meyer asked for a loan on a Colorado silver mine. Shrewdly, Meyer said he would rather be a partner. When the mine did not pay, he went west and supervised it. Soon the whole family was dabbling in many metals, and in 1901 their interests helped form the American Smelting & Refining Co., "The Smelter Trust...
Twice, last week, were planes shot at from the ground. In the southern part of Colorado, an airplane of the Alamosa Airways, Inc., flown by a War pilot, Harry Miller, with two passengers, was brought down in Mosca Pass by rifle fire. One of the passengers, Eloise Noble, 16, schoolgirl, was killed. The pilot and other passenger, a friend of Miss Noble's, were badly shaken up. Assumption was that cattle rustlers had caused the tragedy...
While on this trip Dr. Barbour is to make an inspection of the Harvard Biological Establishment in cuba, and the Barrow Colorado Island Laboratory in the Canal Zone. He is not expected to return before the first...
...Hollywood, just before the promotion, Mr. Fairbanks, graduate of Jarvis Military Academy, the East Denver High School, and the Colorado School of Mines, was asked what sort of a Minister of Education he thought Alba would make. Calling a secretary he dictated two sentences which were transcribed thus: "Spain's greatness will be perpetuated so long as it calls to high administrative office such men as Duke de Alba. He is fitted for leadership by personal attainment as well as by his traditions...