Word: colorados
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...figures at State Fairs. What with government bounties and higher agricultural prices, last year was a whopper, best since Depression. Attendance records were well over the 1931-33 figure and, more significantly, carnival show operators reported business increases ranging from 12% at the Illinois Fair to 75% at the Colorado Fair...
...newshawks confer. But while the Spanish War pensions bill was pending in the Senate, gallery spectators observed another veterans' lobbyist in the Senate chamber itself, not merely sitting on the lounges in the rear but brazenly occupying Senators' seats. As a onetime (1925-27) Senator from Colorado, big. white-haired, black-browed Rice William Means had a right to be on the Senate floor. As tactful lobbvist-in-chief for United Spanish War Veterans, he was taking full advantage of that right...
...aged 20, Second Lieutenant Rice Means of the ist Colorado Infantry marched off to war in the Philippines. In the World War he was one of two officers not of the regular Army to be put in command of regulars. He was successively commander-in-chief of the Society of the Army of the Philippines (1913). of Veterans of Foreign Wars (1914-15), of United Spanish War Veterans (1926). After defeat for re-election to the Senate, he returned to Washington to look out for Spanish War Veterans' interests in Congress, help run their National Tribune and Stars & Stripes...
Born in Budapest, Julius Kessler was selling whiskey in Colorado when the silver boom started at Leadville in the late 1870's By coaxing pack mules over the hills from Denver, he got his whiskey to Leadville, where it retailed at $2 for three fingers. Later, when he got his own distilleries, he beat out his rivals by selling direct to retailers. A tall, beaming sales man with a sleek, well-fed look, Julius Kessler managed to pump the hands of at least 40,000 U. S. liquor dealers. That gave him such a runaway advantage that Distillers Securities...
...class book of 1912 at the University of Colorado, under a picture of Floyd Bostwick Odium, is the caption: "Manages to get his hands on everything that makes money." Starting as an obscure chaser of ambulance chasers in Utah, lean, sandy-haired Floyd Odium got his hands on $14,000,000 in cash and quick assets just before the market broke in 1929. He sat on his money until 1930, then quietly began placing his bets. Result: Floyd Odium is Depression's No. 1 phenomenon and his Atlas Corp., with assets of $110,000,000, the biggest investment trust...