Word: colorados
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Naval Science students here, Irving H. Chase '39 and Richard B. Hutchins '41 were due for their summer cruise. Upon comparing the itinerary of the ship which was to take the Harvard and Yale ROTC boys with the itinerary of the "Colorado," which was to carry ROTC boys from the universities of Washington and California, Chase and Hutchins found the latter much more to their linking...
...return to Chase and Hutchins, Arriving in San Francisco, they boarded the "Colorado" and were soon headed in the direction of the Hawaiian Islands. On one of their off afternoons at the islands, the boys were basking on the sands of Waikiki beach. A newsboy appeared, shouting the fact that Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan were lost. Chase and Hutchins were sorry, but they went right on basking, little realizing what was to happen...
...Elijah Barrett Prettyman who moved out to make room for Robert Houghwout Jackson. When Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau's good friend Bob Jackson was elevated to Assistant Attorney General last winter, the job went to Morrison Shafroth of Denver, whose father, John Franklin Shafroth, was Governor of Colorado twice, Senator from 1913 to 1919. Last week, the post was vacant again. Secretary Morgenthau announced that Morrison Shafroth and his first assistant, Russell J. Ryan, had resigned...
Europe-bound aboard the Normandie was Colorado Copperman Spencer Penrose, who keeps on his Colorado Springs summer-resort estate a menagerie of lions, bears, elephants. Said he: "This country has entered a dog-eat-dog era. ... I don't mind, I got sharp teeth...
Sneaking out of Chicago, the Vagabond spent the weekend traversing Missouri and Kansas and annoying farmers in Model T's and roadside cows with bits of dynamite that went "Bang!" and sometimes "Bang! Bang!" or just "Phfft!" Safe in Colorado Springs, he cheated the most ritzy hotel out of fifty cents for the use of their tennis courts. He headed for what he thought was Albuquerque and grew excited when two girls waved at him from a train that was chugging up a mountain. He followed the train sixty miles, only to discover he was going East...