Word: colorados
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Five years ago Paul Bonynge, New York lawyer, first cousin of onetime Congressman Robert William Bonynge from Colorado, ran for the post of county judge in Long Island's suburban Nassau County. Suave, patrician Paul Bonynge candidly told his constituents even in those Prohibition days that now and then, when he wanted a drink, he took it. He was beaten. Campaigning again on a platform "never to put a man in jail for things I do myself," he was elected in 1932 a justice of New York's Supreme Court (equivalent to a superior court of original jurisdiction...
...Livingston put the treaty through; the next Congress appropriated the money; nobody carried the case to the Supreme Court; and, as a result, Louisiana and Arkansas and Missouri and Iowa and Minnesota and Kansas and Montana and North Dakota and South Dakota and the larger portions of Wyoming and Colorado and Nebraska and Oklahoma fly the Stars & Stripes today...
...Colorado College (Colorado Springs) Editor Edward King Gaylord of Oklahoma City's Oklahoman ...........LL.D. Artist Boardman Robinson ...........Litt.D...
Texas' founding fathers picked Austin for the State capital because of its natural beauty, perched on bluffs above the Colorado River. The State Capitol of pink Texas granite, biggest in the U. S., was built by Chicago capitalists, paid for with 3,000,000 acres of public land which later produced oil, are now worth about $60,-000,000. University of Texas at Austin (enrollment: 7,000) scraped along on its 2,000,000-acre endowment until oil was struck in 1923, since when it has become the richest and one of the best state universities in the land...
...sounding is 600 ft. Then the river began to cut deeper. Few miles farther on the gorge is 2,400 ft. deep, eight miles wide, and its bottom is 3.000 ft. below present sea level. Greatest depth of the gorge from brink to bottom is 3.600 ft., which beats Colorado's Royal Gorge by 1,000 ft. It becomes shallower near the mouth which is 7,500 ft. under the ocean surface. North of it is another deep groove, 15 miles long, which further soundings may show to be a fork branching across the ancient delta...