Word: colorados
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Philippine coconut oil was a competitor with their cottonseed oil. Manila hemp seemed to be hurting U. S. cordage producers. But the big importation from the Philippines is sugar from sugar cane, and that brought anguished wails from Louisiana sugarmen, howls of positive pain from sugar-beet growers of Colorado, Utah, Nebraska, Wyoming, Montana, Michigan. With independence goes a U. S. duty on Philippine sugar which, unless it is tempered by U. S. Tariff Commission experts now probing the situation in Manila, may prove the Islands' agricultural ruin...
Three weeks ago Democratic Governor Edwin Carl Johnson addressed a special session of Colorado's General Assembly in portentous words...
...harbinger of ruin and decay, Governor Johnson nominated his own Secretary of State, James H. Carr, 32, youngest Colorado official in history. He asked the Assembly to impeach and remove Mr. Carr from office. Secretary Carr, a dapper, toothbrush-mustached flashy dresser, hired as his attorneys Frederick E. Dickerson, Denver Democratic leader, and George Evans, friend of Colorado's rural Legislators. He attended the House hearings sipping milk for an ailing stomach. The story told in court against...
...Denver last September the local manager of McKesson & Robbins, Inc., national distributors of drugs and liquor, went down in the office basement with an unemployed liquor salesman named William E. O'Toole whose brother is a member of the Colorado House of Representatives. The manager handed O'Toole a check for $3,000 payable to the State in settlement of past due liquor taxes, which, according to a later audit, should have amounted to more than $22,000. The manager also handed O'Toole $3,000 in cash. "This is positively the last shakedown...
...spite of Secretary Carr's well-connected attorneys, Colorado's Democratic House impeached him by a smash vote of 48-10-15. Promptly Mr. Carr underwent two minor operations connected with a blood clot on his lung. On the eve of the Colorado Senate's assembling to try the impeachment, Lawyer Dickerson marched into Governor Johnson's office and laid down Mr. Carr's resignation. Next morning George Saunders, 35, crook-hating sheriff of Larimer County, marched into the Secretary of State's office and, by appointment of Governor Johnson, took over...