Word: colorados
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...future. Very soon the nations on earth will turn to it in thought and feeling and develop such intuitive powers which lead them to harmony." Owner of most of these non-objects, Solomon Guggenheim, celebrated his 76th birthday last week. Fourth of the seven sons of old Meyer Guggenheim, Colorado mining tycoon, he was one of the most active members in developing the Guggenheim copper empire. He is still a director in half-a-dozen mining companies besides holding a partnership in Guggenheim Bros. He has served as board chairman of American Smelting & Refining Co. Many years ago he began...
General Hugh Samuel Johnson accepted an invitation to address the 14th annual "Sowbelly Dinner" of the potent Colorado Mining Association at Denver, telegraphed he would fly out. When bad weather grounded him in Washington, the Association's pressagent quickly arranged to transmit the speech by telephone. Due to bad weather there was difficulty completing the circuit, and when his voice was finally heard, General Johnson nettled the fidgety gold & silver miners by talking about copper...
Died, Dr. Alexander Hamilton Phillips, 70, famed Princeton geologist, onetime (1911-16) mayor of Princeton, N. J.; of heart disease; at Princeton. In the carnotite ore of Utah and Colorado ten years ago he discovered and refined the first U. S. radium. Died, Andrew Jackson Montague, 74, Democratic Representative from Virginia since 1913, onetime (1902-06) Governor; after long illness; in Urbanna...
Plenty of cattlemen present remembered the tough old days. Past President Charles E. Collins, who has been in the saddle for 50 years and still rides his 50,000 Colorado acres in sub-zero weather, could recall the time when nothing except long-horn cattle roamed the range. And presented to the convention was Rev. L. R. Millican, 84, a wrinkled, white-thatched Baptist circuit-rider who as a boy knew General Sam Houston, father of Texas independence...
...Sullivan Committee always accompanies its gifts, Decathloner Morris, who got 1.106 votes, was characterized as "modest, courageous, helpful, amiable and always willing to abide by decisions and rulings ... a fine type of sportsman. . . ." Decathloner Morris discovered his vocation in a way characteristic of decathloners. A famed footballer at Colorado State College of Agriculture, he had never seen the event until he visited the 1932 Olympic Games as a spectator. Decathloner Jim Bausch's victory, with a world record score, caused Spectator Morris' eyes to pop. Said he: "I can do all those things as well...