Word: colorados
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...blond, square-jawed Denver lawyer became a member of the Colorado Senate. Henry Wolcott Toll had been educated at Williams College, at Harvard and University of Denver Law Schools, and there was then nothing much to distinguish him from hundreds of other young lawyers elected to state legislatures. After two years in Colorado's Senate he was thoroughly disgusted at the ignorance in which state legislators were obliged to make laws -ignorance of the laws, investigations, researches, and legislative experiments of other states. In 1925, at his own expense, Henry Wolcott Toll sent letters to all 7,500 legislators...
...agreements with one another provided Congress ratifies them. Best example is the compact setting up the Port of New York Authority which links New York and New Jersey together with four bridges and the Holland Tunnel. As a State Senator, Mr. Toll served in the negotiations for the Colorado River Compact which was to divide water power and water rights from Boulder Dam among seven Western states. He soon learned that states seldom agree, because they have no machinery for negotiation. The Colorado River Com pact was ten years in the making. The negotiators were unofficial representatives; their tentative agreements...
...March 1935, New Jersey became the first State to pass such a law. Year ago, when the first General Assembly of Commissions on Interstate Co-operation was held, New Jersey and Colorado were its only members. Last week the second General Assembly found 14 states with such Commissions, all of them, except Colorado and Nebraska, from east of the Mississippi. In addition, twelve other states which have not yet formally adopted the plan have standing committees on interstate co-operation in one or both houses of their legislatures. Seven other interested states sent delegates to last week's convention...
Next stop was a friend's ranch in Colorado. The hired man they had was helpful, but "his wife always went out and lay down in the grass after she washed the dishes or did any work, because she said she was delicate. She wasn't a pioneer." Ranch biology they found engrossing. "A steer is a bull they fix so he can't give any germs to the cows to make calves." Neither Republicans nor Democrats could object to their comment on Roosevelt II: "President Roosevelt must be a very rich man because he gives...
...South America, invented an underground shovel, became head of the company, worked low-grade lead ores at a profit, using one-third the former man power. At 56 he found time to design the America's Cup yacht Weetamoe. The same year he got a D.Sc. degree from Colorado School of Mines. Now white-haired, straight as a ramrod, he still designs boats for his friends, says: "If I had time I might try something entirely different. There's nothing so stimulating as a new career...