Word: colorados
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...broad and militant a movement inevitably precipitated opposition from other students. In some places Fascist Clubs were organized. This was true of the University of Colorado with its American Brown Shirts, and Columbia, where the Fascists brought in Daniell of Stock Exchange-stink bomb fame. At Peoples Junior College in Los Angeles a song sheet appeared on which were printed the college song, the Star Spangled Banner and a purple swastika. Both at Johns Hopkins and Amherst, where there were strikes, R.O.T.C. men threw firecrackers and rotten vegetables into the ranks of the demonstrators. At the former university, the R.O.T.C...
...down one noon with Senators King of Utah, Borah of Idaho, Pittman and McCarran of Nevada, Adams of Colorado, Shipstead of Minnesota, Thomas of Oklahoma. Absent was Silverite Wheeler of Montana who did not believe there was any use in more talk. The President was buttressed by non-silver advisers: Governor Black of the Federal Reserve, Secretary Morgenthau and Counselor Oliphant of the Treasury, Senator Harrison, Senate Finance Chairman...
Louisiana and Florida grow sugar cane as do Hawaii, Puerto Rico and the Philippines. But production in Louisiana and Florida is relatively small and the insular possessions of the U. S. have no vote in Congress. Politically speaking, the U. S. sugar industry is the sugar beet industry in Colorado, Montana, Nebraska, Idaho, Utah, Michigan and California. Sugar beets require an immense amount of hand labor. Therefore beet sugar is more expensive to make than cane sugar. Thirty-seven years ago the beet sugar industry learned how to counteract this disadvantage when it induced Nelson Dingley Jr. of the Ways...
...when the Scudders recalled him to Newark to take complete charge of their newspaper in fact if not in name. He was a crack Washington correspondent, would have made a crack politician. Alert, shrewd, tart, he took no windy nonsense from any Senator. From his desk in the Colorado Building he could gather news direct by telephone from practically every Government official in town except the President...
...Utah, Idaho, Montana, Arizona, Colorado. Nevada, New Mexico...