Word: colorados
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Early last week dispatches from a vacation spot in Colorado began to rustle through the becalmed leaves of the nation's Press. These remote stirrings indicated that an answer would soon be forthcoming for Columnist Westbrook Pegler, who last week treated his Scripps-Howard readers to the following sarcasm...
...Republican National Chairman John Hamilton, accompanied by a dozen assistants and reporters, boarded a chartered plane in Chicago, set out on a twelve-day trip through 16 States west of the Mississippi. Like a swiftly moving piece upon a checkerboard, the plane zig-zagged across Minnesota, the Dakotas, Montana, Colorado, Wyoming and settled down one afternoon last week at Salt Lake City.* Thus the campaign manager of the Presidential nominee who had declared for a sound currency "convertible into gold" arrived in the heart of the silver country...
Married. Guy Waggoner, 58, Texas racetrack owner (Arlington Downs), co-administrator of the $100,000,000 oil fortune left by his father, W. T. ("Old Dan") Waggoner; and Virginia Joan Greene, 20, Dallas department store clerk, his sixth wife; in Colorado Springs, Colo. Fortnight ago he divorced his fifth wife, is reported to have paid her $500.000. Said Father Waggoner once: "Anybody who can't appreciate a pretty woman, a fast horse, and a good beef steer-well, something's wrong with his head." Divorced, Mrs. Lou Hoover Dunbar, daughter of retiring Dean Theodore Jesse Hoover of Stanford...
Mary French takes a different road. A Colorado doctor's daughter who hates her hateful mother, she goes from Vassar into settlement work and from there into the labor movement, falls in love with one radical hero after another, only to be betrayed by all of them. Drowning her personal despair in work for the Cause, she finally emerges as an impersonal, efficient cog in Revolution's painfully assembling machine...
...placed 16,500 farmers on relief projects, made ready to handle another 58,500. The Resettlement Administration declared a one-year moratorium on some 30,000 rural rehabilitation loans, prepared to pour out $18,000,000 for crop loans and feed. With Secretary of Agriculture Wallace vacationing in Colorado, the AAA continued to amend its soil conservation program, permitting farmers to cut for forage soil-depleting crops hitherto condemned to be plowed under...