Word: colorados
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cedar Rapids parsonage, Merlin Hall Aylesworth has been a salesman. Out of University of Denver Law School, he exercised his powers of persuasion so effectively that he became an almost miraculous collector of bad bills for doctors. Soon he sold himself for the job of chairman of the Colorado Public Utilities Commission. In four years he was an executive of the Utah Power & Light Co. He sold electricity so suavely that in 1919 he was made managing director of National Electric Light Association, powerful utilities propaganda agency. In 1926 he stepped into the presidency of National Broadcasting Co., just formed...
...death two years ago of Allen Foster, first criminal to be executed in the lethal gas chamber of the North Carolina State Prison at Raleigh. The Foster execution lasted eleven minutes, provoked a storm of newspaper criticism. Today lethal gas executions are legal in six States besides North Carolina-Colorado, Nevada, Arizona, Missouri, Wyoming, and Cali-fornia-and are increasingly efficient, but to many conservative criminals and laymen alike the humdrum noose or electric chair still seems safer...
...Three members of Temple University's basketball team are six feet five or taller, one is six feet four, and the other, Howard ("Shorty") Black, almost six feet two. In Manhattan last week the Templars were not only too tall but too fast for Colorado University, whose team they defeated, 60-to-36, in the final game of a tourney which metropolitan basketball writers hope to develop as an annual "basketball world series" (TIME, March...
Temple's Don Shields was the star of the tourney, Colorado's Byron ("Whizzer") White its No. 1 box-office attraction. A better football than basketball player, Rhodes Scholar-designate White grinned his way through the final game, once turned to a teammate and audibly asked, "How do you like this part of the country, my friend?" Day after the final, Whizzer visited the New York Stock Exchange. Trading (such as there was) stopped five full minutes while brokers cheered...
...Holworthy Hall; Malcolm S. Mackenzie of Coopers town, New York and Holworthy Hall; Langdon P. Marvin, Jr. of New York and Holworthy Hall; Eugene H. Nickerson of Oyster Bay, New York and Wigglesworth; Charles H. Old father of Lincoln, Nebraska and Grays Hall; James J. Pattee, Jr. of Pueblo, Colorado and Straus Hall...